Amazon Advertising group

Juniper
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Nov 17, 2021 14 Comments

I got a call from amazon for Advertising group. Can anyone throw some light about the team. Is PIP normal ?

Current TC: $270K

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  • Amazon
    lGIL28

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    lGIL28
    Assuming your role is SDE. Amazon ads is a big org but I’ve only heard stories of it being a dumpster fire. It will depend on the exact team but chances of getting a bad team are high. Talk to your hiring manager. Ask someone you know who works at amazon to look at team’s operations(sev2s etc) & wikis for red flags( I do it for my friends). I highly recommend talking to one of the SDEs on team to assess team culture. If you do get an offer but don’t like the team your recruiter should work with you to get a different team.
    P.S. my manager was an ads TPM turned SDM and I changed the team in 6 months. Even they had bad stories about ads.
    Nov 17, 2021 3
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      bezosbucks

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      bezosbucks
      The website stack is an actual dumpster fire. Hundreds of little packages written by people who don’t know what they’re doing because the main teams don’t want people contributing to the repositories they own.

      Even small changes can take a couple of days to get implemented.

      If your future team has to get UI features launched, I’d suggest finding a different team.

      Source: was in Ads, left to join a different org a couple of months ago.
      Nov 20, 2021
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      bezosbucks

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      bezosbucks
      If your team is one of the website teams, run even harder. Those teams have some terrible ops load from what I’m told.
      Nov 20, 2021
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    WAWy08

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    WAWy08
    Ads team are very toxic . Run away
    Nov 18, 2021 1
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      bezosbucks

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      bezosbucks
      Agreed, the business is very strong. It’ll grow no matter what happens.

      Which becomes a problem since bad decisions can’t be recognized. Managers get rewarded for growth even if their systems/ideas were terrible, because at the end of the year the revenue grew.

      Better decisions might have resulted in twice as much revenue growth.
      Nov 20, 2021
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    kAqb48

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    kAqb48
    PIP stories aside, I work with an ads team and they’ve been busy trying to justify their existence since the iOS ads update earlier this year (it’s not going well for them). They’re in the bargaining phase of the five stages of grief, and they’re probably gonna get reorged here pretty soon
    Nov 17, 2021 1
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    zUOV52

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    zUOV52
    Yeah. One got piped and left Amazon this year in my team.
    Nov 17, 2021 3