Had my Forte review today. It’s been a year since I joined Amazon. Got Meets High Bar/Solid Strength. Yes - I know I could have done better in few areas. But, how common is it to get “exceeds high bar” after 1 year? Also, should I even be expecting any comp change or will it be peanuts (~1% approx) ? Thank you! Current TC: 265K
How is TC so low if you just joined? What’s your role and location?
Low for what bar? OP didnt even mention level, YOE, job family, location, etc. Not everyone here or Amazon in general is a SWE L6 in Bay Area. Blind really makes everyone blind it seems - saying a 265k year job is low. Get out of your own bubble
Regardless, you are only focusing on job family. There are levels across all that vary greatly as well as location, an L4 SDE may make more than a PM L5. Again please get out of your own bubble.
Ex Amazonian. I absolutely smashed all my targets and still got a meets expectations. I challenged, with data and feedback etc. No change...offline my manager said if he had given exceeds expectations, he would have to write a letter justifying it. So don't feel too bad...its the bell curve.
Thank you so much. Glad to know about your experience.
Also got meets high bar and solid strength and I’m in focus with laughably unattainable goal criteria. This company is awful and my manager is incredibly toxic.
Just curious what is a goal criteria? Like is it a project or?
Role and YOE?
This is my first year , I got Meets high bar / LP : Development Needed. My manager never complained on LP and suddenly got Development Needed .
Hmm. Were you able to ask him how come he has never hinted about it before Forte discussion?
He told that , I am doing good and started showing my leadership principle from this year beginning and forte review is for prev year performance
It takes most folks two years to start getting there so don’t feel bad. It’s a partly politics, how easy you make things seem, and your unique value added. Politics - managers have a promo schedule in their mind they are trying to hit, can only be so many TTs Easy - you’ve been through this all before and can talk to it that way. Help others get there. Value added - created something where no one was looking, depending on your domain
Thank you! That’s very helpful!