L6. Money is terrific, but I wonder if I would learn more from another company's design culture at this point. Also, where should I go next? Need to stay in Seattle...
At that salary point I would stay another year. Amazon is well regarded for UX, esp if you are L6 should have no problem finding another job. That salary though... hard to come by.
If you are a UX, leave Amazon my friend. I don't understand why you are still asking this question. In my 3 years here, I have only ruined myself and my career.
I’ve been at amazon as a UX designer for a year and a half and I want to get out. I just don’t have the energy to fight devs at every small change and middle management (immediate director). I also can’t just lay down like someone who doesn’t care about design. I feel like I have to choose between shitty design or having high blood pressure. I had two meetings the other day regarding a string because a Dev didn’t agree with me and PM. We had clear business requirements and were in the right. It just happens all too often. I’m looking to leave.
You seriously just described my everyday bullshit until I switched teams. Not saying grass is greener on the new team but definitely have less of that. I get it though, the amount of times I heard a dev tell me they weren’t going to build something that went through 15 rounds of user testing, was approved by multiple S-level peeps, the design team and a principal designer was astounding. It happened way too often.
Same boat as you. Been with Amazon so long and not sure where to go from here. the real decisions that really impact the ‘UX’ outside of just look/feel are made by L7 Senior product managers - they are the ones responsible for product strategy, they barely know how to engage with Designers and we don’t necessarily do a good job to understand or try to solve for the real and hard problems - UX continues to focus on visual details that no1 cares about. Not sure where to go from here and considering a career transition or a different culture to grow myself.
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What’s your current comp?
At today's stock price, I'll make 410k this year. If the stock doesn't double again this year I will probably make less in 2019.