Four rejections in less than a month

Amazon
coolerX

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coolerX
Oct 21, 2020 327 Comments

Update:

WOOOOWW thanks all for the responses, the TC is that low cuz I’m in London.

My base is £46K which is around $60K
This year I’m vesting 9 stocks (turns out I got a terrible offer when I joined and learnt about this a year in)

In all cases I’ll probably DM some of you for referrals (if you offered and your company has an office in London that I haven’t interviewed for) and I really appreciate the advice and help great community.

I feel stuck, I’m suffering at amazon I have an incompetent manager and skip level manager. I’ve been stuck at SDE 1 for 3 and a half years now. My TC sucks and been trying to get promoted for the past 2 years with no outcome. I was never told I’m lacking any skills to be an SDE 2 on the contrary. However I’ve only submitted once due to manager having no time to write the doc, and the feedback I got was I need to be pushing back again as I stopped doing this for the past 6 months. That was the only reason the promotion got rejected. They broke me and now they’re complaining.

The Q4 deadline is in a couple of weeks and I did nothing about as I’m burnt out and demotivated.

However I can’t get another job, as I’m completely burnt out and can’t get myself to study. I got 4 rejections in 1 month and I feel helpless :/

Any advice?

TC: $85K

#interviewing

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  • Google
    Relodia

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    Relodia
    How about taking a vacation?
    Oct 21, 2020 4
  • Oracle
    JackBauerr

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    JackBauerr
    Rejection is just a chapter before success. I personally gave 8 onsite and countless phone interview before I got an offer. I am sure there are plenty of others with a similar story.

    There were some interviewers who were arrogant and laughed when I couldn’t get a solution. All this just made me stronger and got the best out of me. Just believe in yourself. Learn from your mistakes and start giving more interviews. Only you can decide your destiny not your crappy manager.
    Oct 21, 2020 5
  • Rubrik / Eng
    (・o・)

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     (・o・)
    OP, location? That TC looks atrociously low for any location
    Oct 21, 2020 15
  • Agero
    fsg

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    fsg
    I understand the frustration but please focus on positives. The very fact that you have actually attended 4 interviews in a month is a win. Lot of people can’t even bring themselves to interview when they are down and burnt out.

    Try to focus on different aspects of your life in a day like few mins of exercise, cooking and eating good food, if you are creative spend an hour or so doing anything in that space. Your mind needs a break too don’t push it to do one and one thing only. Pandemic has aggravated negative emotions, distracting your mind with positive things goes a long way.

    You got this OP!
    Oct 21, 2020 0
  • 85k TC at Amazon? Wtf new grads usually get like 140k+.
    Oct 21, 2020 4