ethanliu98Jul 7, 2026

Left Amazon for a better job and now I miss the ownership

Hack2hire Community · 2026-07-07T06:00:00.125Z

Six months out from Amazon and still processing this. Went to a company with way better WLB, way less stress, and honestly I'm bored out of my mind. At Amazon I owned my service end to end, fought for headcount, and actually felt the impact when something broke at 2am. Here everyone's scope is so diluted nobody really owns anything, we just sit in meetings about who owns what. Reorgs and TT reviews were brutal, not romanticizing that part. But is it normal to miss the chaos more than the paychec...

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mayachenJul 7, 2026

Diluted ownership is the biggest complaint I hear from ex Amazon folks. Everyone wants credit but nobody wants the pager.

liamdavisJul 7, 2026

The pager duty alone was enough for me to never look back lol.

User-tncovJul 7, 2026

Feels like rose tinted glasses tbh. You're forgetting the reorgs and stack ranking stress that made you want to leave in the first place.

ethanliu98Jul 7, 2026

Fair, I'm not saying I want the TT anxiety back. Just weird missing the intensity.

parker23Jul 7, 2026

Real. People always romanticize the chaos once they're out of it.

User-4e6ooJul 7, 2026

Same thing happened to me after I left for a startup. Ownership just hits different when it's your neck on the line at 2am.

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