Did you leave Amazon and find a truly better experience, better coworkers elsewhere? My experience at Amazon and my disgust with their leadership is poisoning my ability to leave because I just assume everywhere will be equally bad. The level of corruption and incompetence is extremely demoralizing. Tc: 525ish
Left Amazon after 7 years for Google, L6 IC. Google isn't perfect by any means, but it's better in so many ways. Better WLB, little toxicity, better perks, better pay. Much of the stuff I just considered normal at Amazon, I realized was clearly pretty toxic and cruel. People love to pile hate on Google, but it's still much much much better than Amazon. I wish I had left Amazon years earlier.
Working at Amazon, every year you lose a bit of empathy and ultimately you lose yourself and become one of those shit that treat people with no respect. Grass is definitely greener outside of Amazon. No matter how much TC you earn, losing that basic empathy is no beuno.
This is so true. For this reason I try to stay disconnected from the culture as it leeches your soul and spirit. And leaving as soon as possible to halt the infection from spreading further… Two-way dogs not barking, oops
Losing empathy was one of the big reasons I left after being there for several years. There were things I just started accepting as normal, like being disparaged constantly, being expected to always be on call all the time, and of course the URA thing where we every year we had to let go of good people to hit a quota. When I left Amazon, I felt like I had to "detox" a bit. It's not though like everyone there was bad, we had some good managers who were super countercultural and still held onto good values. But Amazon certainly rewarded people who were more cut throat.
Yep I have been with Amazon for many years and I have no feelings anymore… I hire .. fire…deliver results… I am a robot
Left Amazon and landed at Nvidia before the stock boom. You will find your next Nvidia, hang in there. Or that's wrong choice of words. Find your next ship now.
But was Nvidia better aside from infinite tc?
Amazon has the lowest ratings on blind for a reason and it's not just because Amazon is big. When you leave Amazon the probability of you landing in a better and less toxic place is very high.
Left a few years ago and I’m 1000x happier overall
I left Amazon for Google and I’m way happier. Amazon is too toxic, your mental health is important. You will realize that when you leave.
Joined Amazon as a new grad for 2 years now, I wanna know too.
Grass is greener where u water it. That why it called Amazon not desert
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amazon it call forres. me no like you plz