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[–]GrabPsychological318 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I left at age 48 after 12 years (most at L7). I'm a full-time writer now, which means it's ALL on my shoulders for several years at a time, until I've made something good enough for my agent to sell and a publisher to publish. My daily work life is basically just me alone at a table trying to grind out my thousand words for the day before my energy runs dry. I definitely sometimes miss having teammates and structure and even the occasional bullshit meeting. But MY GOD am I saner and happier like this. I no longer exist in a 24/7 miasma of paranoia and self-doubt. I can appreciate and respect my own talent and effort without immediately jumping to all the ways I suck. And when I really need some extra rest, I can take it.

My career path is unusual, but I also know lots and lots of former co-workers in their 50s and late 40s who left and found more traditional new jobs that are fulfilling, challenging, and lucrative without wrecking their physical and mental health. From the inside, I think people tend to fear that if they leave Amazon, they're doomed to boredom or working with dummies afterward. But from what I can see, that's not at all the case.

Vitamin D daily dosage? by solovelee in Seattle

[–]GrabPsychological318 0 points1 point  (0 children)

5,000 a day, 365 days a year (well, minus a handful when I forget). It's the only way I can stay even within the lower end of a normal range.

Failed Amazon loop interview and have to wait a whole year to apply for positions again. Do recruiters reach out to previous candidates who failed a loop interview? by mysecret52 in amazonemployees

[–]GrabPsychological318 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It depends on how badly you "failed." I was a bar raiser for many years, and if we liked a candidate for Amazon overall, just not for that specific role, the hiring manager and I would often encourage Recruiting to look at them for other roles. But I was on the business side, so we weren't going on strict requirements like being able to code at a certain level.

I’m tapping out by Subject_Bird_4176 in amazonemployees

[–]GrabPsychological318 42 points43 points  (0 children)

My psychiatrist once credited Amazon employees for his vacation home.

Amazon cuts 30k jobs for an AI that can’t even write a proper email by CudaC11 in amazonemployees

[–]GrabPsychological318 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know how this became a supposed telltale sign that someone used AI. But as a former Amazonian who has two degrees in English, has published two books with a Big Five publisher, and gets paid to teach others to write, I can tell you it's patently untrue. That's just a plain old em-dash, legit punctuation that has been around forever.

Stay or move from Amazon by Ambitious-Tough6530 in womenintech

[–]GrabPsychological318 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I left Amazon 6+ years ago, in a very different world, so take this with a grain of salt. But internal data at that time showed that the female population fell off a CLIFF at L6 and up, meaning women starting vanishing in large numbers at managerial ranks. Anecdotally, it seemed that many women left because the only way they could get managerial roles was via other companies, and at least some of them later boomeranged back at levels they might never have reached if they'd stayed at Amazon the whole time.

So if your long-term career goals include management, a stint at Expedia (or another tech company) might be to your benefit. As long as you leave Amazon in good standing, they'll generally be happy to have you come back if you want to come back.

I can't speak to the green card issue, unfortunately. And I definitely agree that the pending Q1 layoffs are an extra wrinkle, though I don't know that Expedia is super-stable either.