PIPing at amazon - the final showdown

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agueroooo

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agueroooo
Jun 25, 2021 28 Comments

A huge chunk of posts on Blind revolves around PIPing at amazon. Can we collect some real data from current or previous amazon employees only?

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  • Oracle
    agueroooo

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    agueroooo
    OP
    No it’s not a spam, outside folks need to really understand whether considering employment at amazon is even an option?
    Jun 25, 2021 8
    • Amazon
      aTwm17

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      aTwm17
      It’s not all about the $, the PIP process or even just the threat of PIP legitimately messes with your mental health & self confidence. I was PIP’d for purely political reasons and I still really suffered mentally from it. It scars you.
      Jun 25, 2021
    • Facebook / Product
      yg7@r

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       yg7@r
      Just get another job. Amazon is trash.
      Jun 25, 2021
  • Why does everyone keep beating the same dead horse. Amazon is shit, don’t work for them, case closed, move on!
    Jun 25, 2021 1
  • stop spamming posts op
    Jun 25, 2021 0
  • Amazon
    fatcat420

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    fatcat420
    There’s a most recent internal poll on the Amazon company page with 53% saying it is not as bad as people say, 35% saying it is as bad as people claim and the remaining saying it’s worse.

    When you factor in selection bias of happy employees being less likely to post, you probably get that by a slim margin, Amazon is not nearly as bad as people claim.

    That being said 40+% of people claiming it’s bad is terrible, stay away unless the money is good and you’re willing to coinflip being placed on a good team.
    Jun 25, 2021 0
  • Amazon / Eng
    Fang Tsung

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     Fang Tsung
    I’ve been at Amazon for 3 years. I don’t work more than 40 hours a week on average. And im not the smartest or most experienced SDE and yet I’ve never been on dev list as far as I know. I also don’t know anyone who has been pipped, so yeah I would say it’s overhyped.
    Jun 25, 2021 3
    • Amazon
      paitra

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      paitra
      Yes consider yourself lucky, generally people who get pipped they wont reveal to anyone. And i came out of PIP recently successfully after appealing, so its not at all overhyped.
      Jun 25, 2021
    • Amazon
      BatArt

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      BatArt
      My team was like this, and super productive. Team morale was high, and we were one of the few performant teams in the product.

      Out of nowhere 4 people were pipped ( out of 17 ). This included people that could not develop themselves further because they were putting the product first. The team disintegrated soon after.

      Before that point to me it was way overhyped, but since seeing that ( and watching the team I helped build get destroyed) it has made me a lot more sceptical.

      It is still overhyped on here, but it is an area of concern.
      Jun 25, 2021