robertliu_devJun 4, 2026

Amazon - 3 years in and starting to look

Hack2hire Community · 2026-06-04T09:40:00.031Z

Amazon - 3 years in and starting to look Been at Amazon 3 years. Good caliber team, real ownership, comp is solid. The moment I knew I was done: project I'd been building for 8 months got reorged out of our org. Not cancelled - just handed to another team. We had no say. I found out in a Slack message. That's the moment I started to silently boil over. It wasn't the loudest thing that ever happened to me at Amazon. But it was the clearest. I'm not rage-quitting. I'll do good work while I'm here....

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Replies (4)

User-djbjlJun 4, 2026

Microsoft is worth considering if WLB matters. comp is competitive at L63-L64 range and the culture is genuinely different

User-dabpfJun 5, 2026

3 years of good work and finding out via Slack is not a systems failure. that's a management failure

gracelee_sweJun 4, 2026

the slack message reorg is a very specific kind of Amazon pain. sorry that happened

User-axfhfJun 4, 2026

Amazon to Google is a significant culture shift. the ownership culture is real - you might miss it more than you expect

robertliu_devJun 4, 2026

yeah I've heard that. willing to find out tbh. 3 years was enough to learn that Amazon-style ownership can also mean Amazon-style control