On the PIP Wagon

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Jan 2 15 Comments

Long story short, been at AMZ for approx 2 yrs, last few months been a tough battle personally (family struggles/lost brother to COVID) and at work. A re-org made both me and the team take on more work than initially planned for 2021. New L7 Sr Manager (external hire) took over in beginning of 2021..was terrible at managing stakeholder expectations despite multiple escalations from our team to leadership, spineless and "yes-man" folded to leadership and cross team demands whenever in decisive calls. Have been putting in day and night hours consistently for the last 5 months to meet crazy team and org goals, slow hiring processes and declining team headcount (4 IC left within 6 mnths) adding to team's woes.

Started to look and interview for other roles internally and found out 2.5 weeks ago from a cross team hiring manager I am on forte plan and blocked from a move (surprise!) and was approached by manager announcing PIP when I was on call for the holidays! Knowing this manager I was probably affected with the URA given my performance has been good (overdelivering on multiple projects and under-delivering in 1 project due to changing stakeholder demands). PIP doc outlined outrageous demands and I am due to provide my response 1st week of '22.

I don't really have the energy to go through PIP process as i'm drained and very certain these ridiculous demands can't be delivered in 4 weeks, HRBP was not helpful and my attempt to negotiate a later release date got rejected. Not here to whine and cry as the whole situation is out of my control and i've been preparing myself mentally through the holidays to accept it as fate.

Writing this post as I have 60 days before I have to leave the country if I dont find a replacement job, looking for potential referrals and advise on job search (open to both onsite/remote roles).

YoE - 7 yrs
Lvl - L6 (IC)
TC - 292k
Visa - (non H1B) ROW

Thank you, and I wish everyone a better, healthy and more promising start to 2022!
Keep positive!

#interview #jobs #jeffed

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