It seems like all the Amazon workers on here are extremely angry or depressed/unhappy with everything in life. I find a majority to be extremely argumentative and just seemed stressed out but they place no accountability on themselves… a lot log onto here just to be miserable. Are y’all ok over there at Amazon? I think some of you need to either look for a new employer or seek therapy. Sometimes the TC isn’t worth the mental health issues. And I’m not even joking, I’m genuinely concerned for the Amazon employees on here. #amazon #depression #mentalhealth I’ll come back to the thread when I wake up. Amazon workers comment SOS if you need help, don’t blink twice.
Make $1.2M TC and work 45 hours per week. Low stress. I’m okay. Thanks for asking.
Glad to hear it man that’s amazing. I know you prolly worked hard to get to where you are.
What level are you??
Fine, thanks. But I do know others (mostly in AWS) who really need therapy and are extremely stressed out and pushed hard by their managers. It 100% depends on the org, in my opinion.
I believe that’s mostly where I’m seeing it from also. The AWS engineers
I suspect because it’s a “cool” thing to work on so the org leaders know they can just burn and churn. If workaholics are dying to join your team, wouldn’t leave much room for non-workaholics.
Best of luck to you bro. You got this 💪🏾
What's on Nov 22nd?
Simpleton. Happiness is not the only emotion worth feeling. The ones that have the most color are the unpleasant ones. Go back to your daycare 😜
SOS
You sound like a Masochist
Im doing ok. Have been trying hard to have a work life balance.. you’ll find Amazon workers outside of AWS are happier. It’s a lot better here in the Prime orgs.
Back when I graduated, I joined amazon as an Intern. My mentor moved was someone who moved from AWS to my team (in Retail). Have heard horror stories about the on-call there (like tens of SEV2s a day). He was an L4 there, moved here, got promoted to L5 within first 2 quarters and is overall pretty happy now.
I love my job and make plenty of money (although people here will call it 🥜 because it's only upper-band L5 pay). However, I do more than L5 calls for. Let's see if it pays off with a new title 🤞
You’ll get that promotion for sure with that mentality! Keep hustle going.
I work for the Japanese equivalent of Amazon. All the same stress but with Japanese work culture and pay scales tacked on!
You got URA too? Backstabbing and cutthroat culture?
Cutthroat with promotions/demotions and pay bumps/cuts but no URA as such. They just make us keep setting goals and cut our pay when they think we're not performing.
L4 and L5 at amazon is a miserable place to be. And really amazon in general. The culture is aggressive, thankless, and overall dreary so you’re not too far off base on most people at amazon being actually miserable.
Honestly it’s a lot better than I expected. Been on my team for 1.5 years now. I joined one of the Prime orgs and for the most part I had a good experience here. I work about 35-50 hours per week depending on the load during the week, but oncall load is low (we get about 1 sev2 a week) in this team and work is interesting. Colleagues and management have been nice and for the most part and I found maintaining wlb is possible here.
It’s not impossible to find a decent spot for a short time. Certainly 1 sev2 per week is on the very low side. But things shift rapidly and under your feet quickly. Also the longer you stay the more you bear witness to cultural aspects that are just really really poor from an employee perspective.
Sometimes I just want to say “f*** this shit” and leave it for good. Although I also hate Leetcode monkey-ness for an interview. Aren’t there parts that I like about Amazon? Sure. I grew a lot. Yet again, it’s so annoying to see the things you flag come back and bite hard. Security review is needed? Oh no, that’s fine. Then an automated system cuts 35 SEV3 tickets. It’s just so annoying to see your warning being ignored then shitheaded TPMs come and say “it’s higher priority to solve this.” While you’re the one who flagged this shit is about to hit the fan 1,5 years ago, mofo was too busy to make their artificial deadlines met. At what cost, just stupidity. Although I have visa issues so, I hang around a bit more until I have a permanent one.
+1 to the fact that TPMs are shitheads!
I'm fine. SOS, can you ask my founder to give me $1 billion? :)
Geez you guys already make a shit ton. Give an inch, take a mile 🙂