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Hi there! Interviewing w/Amazon for a non-tech role (Associate Category Manager aka Associate Buyer) and was asked what my salary requirements are for base+bonus+equity. Can anyone share insight on what Amazonians make in this role. I have 4 YOE and glassdoor is not very helpful.
Any feedback is appreciated 🙏 Amazon
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Fishes, Anyone aware of the relocation assistance provided by Wells Fargo . Is that provided as as whole or only after submitting the required bills and docs.
Asking because Deloitte credited 40k relocation assistance without any bills even though it was mentioned in the offer that bills were necessary.
Can anyone please help? Wells Fargo
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I'm sorry. I can't imagine how stressful and demoralizing that must be. Unfortunately I think you're probably right - this reads to me like a PIP with extra steps. I'd be trying to find something new ASAP.
That’s what I’m doing. It did took some toll on mental health. Even if I have made mistakes and not a perfect fit for the job, no one deserves this
Unlike all the rest, I do not feel sorry for you. I think you have found yourself in a quite actionable position to not only improve your life, but to put a stigma on the company that is doing this to you do what is right do not back down.
Honestly, I feel like it will cost more than it brings, and even now, the second day into the weekend my intuition just screams RUN
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Would honestly resign and run.... ? but?
But my visa is tied to them and it’s scary because of it. I will have a couple months to find another job so I would prefer resigning once I have got another offer. But on the other side, they’ve been running me into the ground physically on this project and mentally with all the fear and stress they created. Good thing some companies reached out to me and my inbox is quite busy. But I tried running the job and interviewing at the same time (those need prep and practice these days) - mission feels barely possible 😰
Sounds like you work at Amazon. Lol
lol I heard of Amazon culture, my close friend worked there as a manager. It’s even worse for me. They set the bar high and punish people for every small thing but we don’t get Amazon pay and equity lol
Let them terminate your employment. Draw unemployment and find a better job.
Unemployment doesn’t apply to those on a sponsored work visa I suspect?
Sounds like your manager is being a manager. No offense. But if they're looking that closely, there's usually a reason. Start applying for other jobs.
He is a very new manager I realise, I am one of the first people ever reporting to him. He is a smart individual and overall doesn’t look like a horrible person outside this process. But it’s been nothing but demoralising from the very beginning almost. Every 121 we’ve had he’s always been finding something to pick. From week 3 maybe already. It was too early then still… and I showed and tried my nothing but the best. But I still don’t understand what’s the reason and guess I will never know.
I was put in very similar situation not long ago. Terrible for your self-esteem. It was ruining a very big chunk of my life. Finally had enough and quit before they made a decision for me. After quitting, the client I had reached out to hire me through the company, as a contractor, and paying me 3 times what they were paying me before.
I'm not saying that'll happen to everybody, but quitting was the best decision I've made in a while. I was able to breathe again, enjoy my work, and not dread Mondays.
Run, brother. Sounds like you've had other positions before and getting fired can set you back a bit.
Good luck!
They overhired. Find another job, you have had a lucky escape and some notice.
Seems like the thing that would benefit you most right now is finding a way to calm your mind so you reduce your level of anxiety by even just a little bit.
While your current job situation is elevating your anxiety, finding ways to calm your mind will help you feel better and that will help you show up better at your interviews and you may even show up better at your current job until you can move on to another position.
There are many ways to reduce stress and anxiety by calming the mind. Look online. Or, consider finding a therapist to help you. Or, if you are part of a religious or spiritual community, there may be someone in that community who is trained to help in this way. Or, do a workout at the gym; go for a run; go to a yoga class; go for a walk; spend time in nature. Or, some combination of the above.
For the time being please stop focusing on trying to find the logic, the reason, or the fairness in your current situation because I believe that’s making you more anxious and that’s not useful to you right now. If you really need to figure out what really happened in your current position, wait until you have a new position somewhere else. You may find you don’t even care anymore once you’ve moved on. Or, with the distance of time, you may find you are able to figure out the truth more easily.
Because you have committed to finding another position, try and learn ways to redirect the energy you are now putting into worrying into finding that new position and in learning how to become more and more clear headed and calm. This will help you to be and do your best in that new position.
One step at a time. One day at a time. One hour at a time. One minute at a time.
Remember, there isn’t a single adult on this planet who hasn’t gone through a really hard, dark time at least once in their life.
You will come through this!
A similar thing happened in my previous workplace (Also EU company). They started micromanaging devs and makings their lifes hard to make them quit. They wanted to avoid mass layoffs (because they would have to pay severance pay).
Probably the financial situation of your company is bad and they are trying to stay afloat by making people quit instead of firing them directly.
sorry it happened to you. The job market is already bad. I‘d say to look for a job a quit but at this point (in this Sh*tty economy) maybe it makes sense to wait them out?
In my previous company, the situation stabilized at some point and everything went back to normal.
From reading your comments it sounds like your manager has issue with your foreigner status, similar to in the US where foreigners come as H1B visa, and companies/managers make unrealistic demands or they lose visa sponsorship.
I went through a similar thing, except I was losing my hearing and the company wanted me gone. I didn't resign so they spent 1.5 years creating a narrative to use as cause to terminate. I didn't understand and the only advice people could offer was "move on". I was very frustrated until a management course in my master's program there was a book that explained the background details that I was too naïve to recognize at the time. The book is 'Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-truths & Total Nonsense' by Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton. Chapter 3 detailed the negative malicious tactics used to achieve the desired results my manager and the company desired. For me, reading this book was cathartic, like years of therapy finally explaining the why that nobody could really say. It would likely be helpful to you also.
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Probation isn't legal anymore, at least in the private sector.
Very interesting, it totally is here….
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