I worked at Amazon for 3 years. Saw colleagues get pipped out. Was aware of the 🍌 benefits. And lived the stupid leadership principals. And all that is a far lesser evil than Meta in my opinion. Yes, meta has free food and slightly better pay. But the PSC culture is toxic! The overinflated impact posts on workplace, the obsession with artificial metrics, the clueless leadership, the products that just make people’s lives miserable, the endless internal tooling, and now the fact that Meta is a sinking ship with a stock price decline of 65% from peak with layoffs incoming!!! I miss Amazon! The feedback was frank. Results were real. The products were interesting. The culture was more laid back (from Meta’s). The tech stack, industry relevant. And even the PiP culture at Amazon seems less toxic than this PSC culture at Meta. When I was at Amazon I worried about the possibility of PIP around review season. At Meta I worry about PSC EVERY SINGLE DAY! TC: $400K Time at Meta: 7 months (still here) Time at Amazon: 3 years
Yeah man I don’t ever wake up wishing I was at Meta.
Me too lmao. The only bright side of working at Amazon.
Keep you motivated and makes you happy
You had me at “culture was more laid back at Amazon..” 🤣
It’s chill here in my non-AWS org. Sorry you willingly joined a sweaty team.
My team is as chill as you can get at Amazon. But meta is more chill than any team at amazon can ever be
What is a PSC?
Anual review cycle
Performance review
Amazon is huge so the range of good vs bad is high enough that comparing the two is difficult. You joined when stock was at peak and are now at a downturn.
Can you name are few bad Amazon products that is making it worse for their customers?
Meta/Facebook has been an industry lead for a long enough time to branch out in different fields but decided to stick in social media and metaverse specifically. Facebook marketplace was a good initiative but it looks like Meta wouldn't know a gold mine opportunity even if it danced naked infront of them.
Come to Stripe, we have the best of both the worlds, Amazon’s culture and Meta’s free food.
Not true 😂
And high stress environment from both
Nice try Amazon recruiter.
^ says Meta recruiter.
Meta ppl are not all bright.
All jobs are bad. No need to dwell on comparison
Holy shit a poll that Amazon is winning. Meta must really suck.
You declared us the best company to work for, yo!
Meta is the new Amazon
Stress is the biggest killer. If you think about stress/$, amazon is better than meta. But the reality is that most tier 2 companies are way better on that metric.
You didn’t tell us why YOU are worried about PSC
Because everyone here constantly talks about it. It’s on Workplace, casual discussions, Blind, and in meetings where management tells us we need to ‘increase intensity’.
Sounds like you don’t have the right mentors at Meta . Get new mentors . 7 months is too less time to be stressed about PSC . Just collect the highest impact work items out of all threads you mentioned and give it a focused effort and you should be fine imo . What level at Meta ( L5 equivalent of G?) ? For mentors your should seek out folks who are few levels higher or have been promoted few times or have high visibility or whom your directors are meeting. In simple terms _learn2playdagame_ from them