I heard from a friend who's a Director up for VP promo at Amazon. He said that S-Team is requiring every org in the company to increase its Focus (aka Dev List) targets to 15% in 2022. This means VP orgs should place 3 in 20 of their total headcount on Focus at some point in the year, which increases the pool of people eligible for PIP. Targets for PIP remain unchanged for now. Seems like this move intends to raise the bar on everyone's performance since new hires are getting offers way above market rates. My friend is worried that this move will backfire with managers who now need to spend even more time maintaining Focus documentation, hiring to fire and having difficult PIP discussions. Please take care if you're an Amazonian. Manage your performance and manager relationship in real-time to avoid Focus, and make sure to also keep your mental health in mind. YOE 10 TC 370k
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We literally will have no one left lol.
you will have ONE left. And he will have to pip himself! 😂
🤣🤣 Hubspot. They leave a “Do not open until the end” box in every team with a 🔫
Truly squid games
I heard from a friend of a friend on the shitter. Um ok sounds like bs
When I joined Amazon in 2016 the NYTimes was criticizing Amazon for stack ranking and creating a toxic atmosphere. When I worked for Amazon I saw URA targets as high as 12%, though that's definitely unusually high compared to the normal toxicity. It would be more surprising if they actually stopped stack ranking and URA. They haven't responded to everyone's disgust of it and countless exit interviews from high performers citing their disdain for it.
one actually needs ~12% on focus to hit ~6% ura ....so the 15% is not that far off .... although nobody ever cared in amazon about compensation being paid in market so I doubt the rationale given here ...
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Fear mongering. Blind trolling at its best.
He had me stopped at “I have a friend”😂
Meta panicking unsuspecting Amazonians
Just had my teams OLR. Total BS. 5% LE target is the same as every year.
But URA target is 6%. How can you reach a 6% target if your pipeline is 5%? Obviously some HV1 have to be put into Focus, too.
It's not uncommon to have conduct terms. You also can be URA as HV1 depending on your performance rating.
What's the news exactly? What was the old quota? Amazon Music had the URA Pipeline at 7%, and resulted in just 3% URA target. So, they'd need another 7% in the URA Pipeline to achieve another 3% in URA to satisfy 6% URA target. TBH, as long as they keep URA at 6%, the URA Pipeline essentially HAS to be around 15%, otherwise, you'll simply have VPs deny the requests to take people out of Focus for those who do improve. I'm not trying to justify 6% URA quota, but the 15% pipeline in order to achieve 6% is not really a relevation. Unless you officially admit that there's no way to improve.
Sorry what .. to achieve 6%, what’s the percentage targeted ?
You need to target about 14% to 15% in the URA pipeline to allow a 6% "success" in the final 6% URA quota. If you put someone into PIP, and they improve, it's no longer URA. So, unless you disallow the possibility of improvement, you need a double-digit pipeline. Those orgs that do a single digit pipeline, simply never mark anyone back as improved even when people clearly do improve. This is the whole part that makes the whole of Amazon a toxic place to be.
Smells like fake news tho. "Heard from xyz" is sus
It's not fake news; it's simply no news at all, this has been known for years. URA quota is still 6%. How can you reach 6% if you don't put 15% into the pipeline?
How do you know ura is 6% for 2022. My understanding is it’s not announced yet to L8+
They never learn. I'm still surprised and saddened to see new grads join Amazon.
Who no one hires, amazon can hire.
Ain't so bad for new grads. I learned a lot first couple of years. It's after L5 promo that you start to understand the background squid games & start feeling the invisible sword every year.