Why I Left Amazon

I was T1 for 6.5 years, but they dropped all stocks & bonus pay - become not worth it for the bodily damage.

For Chinese sellers, Amazon is very scary. Most seller think Amazon is a scam.
Amazon readily executes Chinese sellers who accidentally violate its platform policies. Very ruthless. Many Chinese sellers died quietly. They are young people.
Few Chinese are getting rich from the Amazon business, and the Chinese are still too poor to truly benefit from the world trading system, Alibaba will not confiscate the supplier's goods. Which is why China always cannot meet U.S. demands for reform. Technology and trade exchanges continue to advance.People choose better services. And Amazon plays a big role.
The entire world trading system is almost monopolized by Amazon now, which is terrible.

My comp at Amazon tripled after my four year cliff because I worked hard and got promoted three times. Amazon definitely pays for hard work.

so what happens after 4 year cliff, if base was 150 and you get 40 shares in 4th year, what about 5th year?

What did you do for Amazon

Maybe im not understanding correctly, but your entry job paid $150k/year?

Just last night I made the final decision to quit working for Amazon, never to return. Its not worth it.

Sad that they hire managers with no basic knowledge of how anything works there so it made me asked why they even there never seen managers that were sooo lazy in my entire life

They want you to leave. Amazon knows the market value of your skills.

Someone needs to hold Seth Godin accountable for supporting Bezos.

I just sign a contract on ORM On Road Management I used to work in a workshop/ warehouse so this is big deal for me

I used to work for a logistics company, the operations manager earned about 25 percent more than myself. But I worked 37 hours a week, he worked 55 hours a week, especially considering he was on call 24/7 basically. I was offered a similar job to his at the same company. But hour for hour, I already earned more than he did. Without any of his stress. They thought I was unambitious. I was just realistic

Amazon cliff is PIP

What title did you hold at Amazon?

$300, 000 vs $ 25, 000 for a regular worker at Amazon is pure Evil. Hope they pay; heartbreaking.

You left cause your greedy lol

Hey Amazon, how about pay your employees a decent wage instead of printing new stock and giving it to them which costs the company 0

As an AA or AM no.

Sure if you l4 more

Anyone who joined in the last 2 years is likely out in 2 years as the stock has fallen 40-50%.

I would say, didn't you felt reasonable for a higher position where you would have more challenges and explain that to your manager? I feel like managers now days should always have a way of meaasuring their employees to be better asset them to the most valueable share withtin the company. Let's make an example as if you were a very good customer drive manager, would that makes sense to make your career growth goes to customer success ?

I have recently been offered a promotion at my company to a management position. The new role required to relocate to a new state.
Salary increase, however, was 10% only.
10% to move your family’s lives and do 3X the amount of work.
It’s often better to change a company than to be promoted at your existing place.
Doesn’t make sense but that’s the reality.

Question:
At work I mostly hear things such as: “Team”, “Alignment”, “Inspiration”, “Drive the change”
At any one-on-one conversations I mostly hear “Money”, “Bonus”, “Stock”, “Cash”.
Is it because of our own hypocrisy or companies’ management?

Please do a video on what type of companies will pay ex-Amazon employees more than Amazon? Which cities? Thank you.

I assume bridge cash is a sign-on bonus bridging base compensation to the stock compensation. I would also think a higher base compensation and sign-on bonus would be preferable for lower total compensation because the company could essentially fire you prior to four years giving you zero equity compensation.

Good for You batyushka John!!!

Amazing! Complaining about 300,000 dollars

Doesn't amazon still give raises and promotions? or would it be more financially beneficial to just switch jobs.

thanks bad Amazon is a bad company

I can't imagine someone being unhappy with making $310,000 a year plus stock and bonuses. omg lol

Great video! Thank you for this!

They look at workers like animals.

My son went from working hard on a hay farm to being a package driver for Amazon for one dollar more an hour. He loved it at first but that love quickly wore off. As he kept making his delivery time goals each week, they kept pushing him more and more without any bonuses. It was never good enough. He was working 12-hour shifts. He was exhausted, going up flights upstairs carrying packages daily.
The better he was, the more they worked him until he completely gave out. Once he tripped on a step and he was terrified to tell management so he wouldn't get yelled at n get a mark against him or get fired. I cleaned his elbow and super glued his elbow skin together and put butterfly stitches on it send sent him back to work.
A year later, after 2 years of no raises, tighter goals to meet, no recognition for safety, and reaching his goals, he gave up n quit.

This Statement is from KM on an Amazon Prime Commercial.
5 months ago

Why does no one else record videos like you. You get straight to the point its awesome

I am a water spider at Amazon. I totally understand where you are coming from.🤔

My nigga

I got an offer from aws honeycode. Can you give me an insight of pressure of work for an l4 level?

I'm not saying your video isn't good, but if you don't plan on promoting or moving up you can't complain what a company pays you doing the SAME job after a few years. You can't expect endless raises in the same role. You have to move

greater responsibility = higher money ? is the right ?

Thanks for sharing

Thank you for being honest, That is very true I thought it's just me but I have many friends working there as well and they all not happy.

Thanks John, great video as always. I am of the opinion that they keep giving the stock every year or atleast after you vested all of them they offered at the joining. Am i wrong?

Genuinely curious. Looking for career change

What did you do at Amazon to make that kind of money?

Thanks perfect analysis

Harsh reality for a learning ambassador 😂

What a crappy company. They work their managers like slaves and their warehouse workers even worse. With very little chance of promotion.

I'm looking at Amazon right now (hence why I'm here). Thinking about it, I think I'm fine with the "4 years of making bank" followed by a change of scenery (if that's what it comes to). I have almost 10 years of experience now at a few different companies. Which means I'm already only spending 2-4 years at any one place before I move on to bigger and better opportunities. I guess it would be nice to be able to settle in somewhere throughout my 30's / 40's, but it makes total sense that these big tech companies want a constant stream of fresh faces with new ideas flowing through the revolving doors. I suppose it also protects them from dolling out massive salaries to people, only for them to ultimately "get comfortable" and no longer be that 'bright eyed new guy' bending over backwards for them. They'd rather have those guys get an automatic "pay cut" after 4 years and move on. I guess we'll all just play the game :)

what's annual increase with the base, 10%?