I joined Amazon as L4 during second half of 2020 and I’ve been told repeatedly by my manager that I’m exceeding my level but my forte review only has achieves rating. My manager did mention during 1 on 1 that it’s because I don’t have a full year worth of data points so I can’t get exceeding. Is that true or I should be worried?
Happens. Happened with me too. I was the top dog in the team but got just HV+ because it was my first year.
Given the low percentage of exceeds that can give to a team, my guess is that it is usually given to the person gunning for promo
Been at Amazon for 6 months and also received Achieves. Manager seemed pretty happy with ramp up period and work past six months. Agree with others, probably hard to get exceeds in first year and probably reserved for those up for promotion.
Trust your manager. Relax this is standard. All good.