People of Blind who got PIP’ed or fired at any company and thought it was justified, or at least not unreasonable, what’re your stories? For example, I was PIP’ed from a previous company (Not Amazon or Cap1) cause I’m just not that great of a programmer and wasn’t able to complete some of the coding tasks without a ton of help. Now I’m at Cap1, which is much more chill. #pip
I PIP'd myself because I had the self awareness to know that I wasn't pulling my weight.
From which place ?
Earth's best employer
Don't use your boss's lie to cheat yourself. No pip is reasonable
Well I was honestly the worst coder on the team. Not bad overall, but I needed hand holding for all non-simple coding tasks. So I’m not angry at him
I was for a variety of reasons, including not being responsive, not finishing work, and being argumentative. In hindsight, it was fair. The PIP worked the way it's intended to, I'm still here.
“Variety of reasons” - that’s scary. Don’t they have a defined framework for these cases
So, you cleared PIP and came out as a winner ?
I got pip’d because my other teammate who was the senior never reviewed my work on time which meant I was always finishing my work late I ended up just leaving
Rip that’s not even anything to do with you (guess your manager doesn’t care) was this Amazon?
It was a small startup that was acquired by Amazon a few months before I left. I told my manager and brought it up during sprint retro’s multiple times but nothing changed
instead of asking people why they got pipped, you might want to ask yourself why so many people complain about Amazon PIP but not about other.companies. Amazon pips X% of its employees every year - so even if all employees are geniuses, they all work 24 hours/day, deliver packages in their free time, working on a cure for cancer as a side project, etc, it doesn't matter. when the time comes a manager will roll the dice and randomly put some of them on PIP - and they'll eventually be kicked out .
Got fired because I wasn’t good at requirement gathering
Lol what did you do ? Build the wrong product ?