There’s a lot which doesn’t add up here — there are URA targets at Amazon, they are usually 6%, but I’ve almost never seen those create tragedies where you LE a high performer or exit a manager who brings enough details.
Source: I was an L8 in AWS.
Source: I was an L8 in AWS.
The usual response to these stories is “well Amazon is a big company. My team was amazing”. Fair enough, but given the frequency of similar stories and given that most people only likely experienced a small part of what Amazon is, I’m finding these stories somewhat credible.
Partly because I new a guy in AWS who started of with the "it's ok", "my team is one of the good ones", "it's not that toxic", "perhaps I'm lucky" ... and within 5 years he left after his doctor told him that the stress had caused him lasting physiological damage that he would never fully recover from.