Under the epidemic, the United States is downsizing, while Amazon is growing against the trend, followed by the crazy expansion of personnel scale: From September 4 to September 14, Amzon announced a series of recruitment expansion, adding a total of 10 million more jobs in the United States and Canada

The hiring spree, however, is often followed by replacement layoffs — Amazon typically cuts 6 to 8 percent of its workforce by PIP each year, but this year it seems that this is not enough (some insiders even say the PIP rate for 2020 is as high as 15 percent).

In order to avoid unnecessary legal disputes, Amazon has also created a series of bizarre assessments.

(Source: Blind)

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Not enough pips, PUA

The so-called workplace PUA means that the leader negates your value in various ways and makes you feel inferior. Even if you are Dev or PIP, you will still feel that the problem is your own incompetence.

For flax with wide in and wide out, this phenomenon is very common. For example, someone on Blind recently joked that his three friends in flax had experienced PUA assessment, during which they were crazy and denied by the manager. No matter what they did, they were forced to resign.

This type of PUA assessment can be regarded as an enhanced version of “Dev List”, because those who are added to the “DVE List” still have the chance to satisfy the manager and get out of danger, while PUA assessment is equivalent to a direct sentence of “death penalty” with no chance of turning over. The specific process is as follows: 👇

First, the manager will place you in a Dev plan or a Coaching Plan and you will not be able to transfer to a group during this time (the transfer will require the approval of both VP’s).

The manager then raises the bar and shortens the time

You end up picking problems no matter what you do, and you end up admitting there was a problem with performance and leaving

Watch out for these subtle hints

While it may be true that some people have been made redundant due to incompetence, many more have been made redundant due to Dev/PIP quotas in their group.

Therefore, if you must always be vigilant in linen, do not think that you work on something for a long time, the lack of people in the group you can rest easy, in linen in addition to the principle engineer and with high-level people, almost no one is indispensable.

Generally, the PUA test or PIP is preceded by an implicit implication such as:

1. If you think this project is not right for you, it is not a good fit.

2. You may want to consider other opportunities

3. Projects are moving too slowly

4. Some team members (such as senior) did not give you a good feedback, believing that you need to improve

If there are any of these signs, you should be on the lookout.

  • Anything I should do differently? (Implies that we want some feedback)
  • Anything I can help out in the team? Indicates a desire to contribute more to the group

Positive vs early slip, always have a way to deal with PUA

In fact, not only flax, many large factories have this kind of PUA assessment, if you are unlucky enough to be PIP, usually the company will ** give you a specific project, and require a period of time to achieve a certain data value, or achieve a certain result. ** This is when you should calm down and think:

  • Whether this PIP is fair to you, if you think this is a trumped-up crime, you can choose to appeal and not to sign.

  • You can comment on the requirements in PIP and point out their irrationality.

  • Is it worth the effort to complete this PIP, or is it better to find another way?

In the first way, you can feedback to HR by collecting evidence that you should not be PIP, HR is not on anyone’s side, if you can convince HR that it is the manager’s fault, then your manager will leave, not you.

Of course, this probability is very small, so might as well try the second way, is the most secure way: early brush ready to find a home.

It needs to be mentioned here that many people poisoned by PUA will feel that they are losers with poor ability and dare not strive for higher level when looking for a job. However, in fact, there are many people who have landed in other big factories after PIP, so don’t be affected by the leader’s denial and criticism.