I worked at AWS and still have friends who work there. I don’t know any L5s who wouldn’t jump at a chance to leave if they even got a slightly worse offer than what they are making now. I know a few L6s and L7s that would stick around out of momentum.
But I know very few people in the industry who know about Amazon’s reputation that have a life long dream of working there given a choice.
I was 46 when I was hired there for a “permanently remote [sic] field by design role” in ProServe and it was my 8th job out of college. I went in with my eyes wide open. I had a plan, stay for four years, sell my RSUs as soon as they vested, pay off debt, save some money, put it on my resume to open doors and make connections and leave.
I was never expecting to make more when I left. I used the time to downsize and reduce my expenses - including moving to state tax free Florida.
When I saw the writing on the wall, I played the game while I was on focus to get my next vest and wait for the “get 40k+ severance and leave immediately or try to work through the PIP”.
I took the latter and had three offers within 3 weeks. This was late 2023.
Close enough. I missed 2 vesting periods. But the severance and rapidly having a job made up for one and I got refreshers my third year that I hadn’t counted on.
I left debt free, sold my old home for exactly twice what I had built for 8 years earlier, downsized to a condo half the price I sold it for (and 1/3 the size) and I was debt free with savings.
I’m now a staff consultant working full time at a 3rd party AWS consulting firm with a lot less stress and still remote. They were the last to fall. But AWS made their ProServe department return to office at the beginning of this year.
But I know very few people in the industry who know about Amazon’s reputation that have a life long dream of working there given a choice.
I was 46 when I was hired there for a “permanently remote [sic] field by design role” in ProServe and it was my 8th job out of college. I went in with my eyes wide open. I had a plan, stay for four years, sell my RSUs as soon as they vested, pay off debt, save some money, put it on my resume to open doors and make connections and leave.
I was never expecting to make more when I left. I used the time to downsize and reduce my expenses - including moving to state tax free Florida.
When I saw the writing on the wall, I played the game while I was on focus to get my next vest and wait for the “get 40k+ severance and leave immediately or try to work through the PIP”.
I took the latter and had three offers within 3 weeks. This was late 2023.