Previously worked at Amazon. Recently, I have been receiving at least one email from Amazon recruiter per day regarding the job opportunity. Opportunities seem interesting as I can boost my level to L+2 and my current TC to ~1.6x with job hopping. I don't mind workload and politics as I'm already working overtime at Google given the shortage of resources in our org and team due to layoff and team members leaving without backfill. Bureaucracy and useless processes to deliver the features to users are already annoying. However, what worries me the most is that Amazon has been doing layoff, and I know enough Amazon engineers looking for both internal and external opportunies? Why not hire them first rather than hiring new employees and spending so much time on ramping them up again? I don't see the rationale here except that they want to hire cheap engineers instead of keep expensive ones. The world's best company doesn't care retaining their engineers? What is your take on this? TC: 250k
Run don’t walk
I wouldn’t go to Amazon. Mainly due to one reason… layoffs… during the pandemic they went from 750k to 1.5m in total headcount. They still have a lot of fat to cut.
Why are they hiring engineers like crazy then?
Too full fill thier pip quota
I rather be homeless than work for Amazon in any capacity
If you are lucky enough, you may land in good team that does interesting stuff with decent work life balance and reasonable leadership. I was in one of them as L4 But chance is very slim. Before signing the offer, at least twice talk to your soon-to-be direct manager, you can smell what kind of life you will have in the team, from their tone, excitement, whether they show up in meeting in time etc.
Amen..
Amazon is huge with little to no coordination between business lines (or even divisions within the business lines). Plus they literally don’t care to help employees get matched when RIFd since this wouldn’t be a KPI/Goal and would be below the line for just about any team
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What happens when most of your team is Indian?
Its +1 not 2, l3 at g is l4 at amazon
I want to go from L4 Google to L6 Amazon. Yes, if you compare them, you are correct.
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