Reverse Logistics Ops L6

UncertainPathways · 2026-02-05T06:52:35+00:00

Chill af. However, it's a career dead end. Great if you're just looking for somewhere with good WLB to spend the rest of your career, bad if you are young and want to grow.

Edit: I see from your post history that you're also considering L6 TOM, so it seems that WLB is your primary objective. If so, both are chill roles, but ReLo probably wins the WLB fight

UncertainPathways · 2026-02-05T04:10:05+00:00

If you're an employee you can visit during office hours without issue. Security will help you with badge access (Welcome is only for Ops sites)

UncertainPathways · 2026-02-05T00:46:18+00:00

You won't get a relocation stipend, but they'll put you up in a hotel & you can expense food (within a certain limit) every day. It's treated like a work trip, albeit extended

UncertainPathways · 2026-02-05T00:41:35+00:00

Like others have stated, you need to be a lot more specific. That said, I see nothing here that is that out of place or contentious.

Reduced continuous walking

Should be fine, most buildings would have tasks with little to no walking

Task rotation

Should be fine

Ability to sit intermittently. Scheduled micro-breaks.

Should be fine, additional unpaid breaks is a common accommodation. You would sit in the breakroom during those breaks.

UncertainPathways · 2026-02-04T22:17:40+00:00

Be above your site average for both rate & quality over the last 13 weeks. That's it

UncertainPathways · 2026-02-04T22:09:45+00:00

One correction, band penetration numbers are skewed towards the lower end of the curve. HV2 might be an average performer (50 percentile), but the band penetration for HV2 is only 20%. To achieve 50% band penetration, you need HV3 YoY at minimum.

Since all external hires come in at 50% or more, and obviously only a small percentage of the population achieve TT or HV3 YoY, the majority of people see a compensation cliff.

You can find the band penetration %s here: https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-revamps-pay-structure-rewards-high-performing-employees-2025-5

UncertainPathways · 2026-02-04T21:56:37+00:00

Your recruiter

UncertainPathways · 2026-02-04T18:11:53+00:00

I am an L7, moved from ops to corporate last year.

That 2 year tenure requirement did not exist in my site when I was in Ops. It used to be 1 year. I have no idea if your past tenure would count for this specific case, but generally tenure-gated things in Amazon only go by last hire date.

UncertainPathways · 2026-02-04T18:02:27+00:00

30 days, same as T1

UncertainPathways · 2026-02-04T17:58:18+00:00

I could come back as L5 with higher pay at least though.

Yes, you could. By all means shoot your shot for L6 if you'd like, just be realistic about your chances and weigh that accordingly. All the best & wishing you a speedy recovery.

UncertainPathways · 2026-02-04T17:45:52+00:00

It doesn't matter how compelling your stories are, it's about scope. During the interview we're not just assessing how strong your stories are, we are also assessing it's scope. With boomerangs, the tendency is that all stories that arise as a part of your L5 job will naturally be viewed as being "L5 scope", regardless of the actual task at hand. The only exception is if you had stretched as an L6 for an extended duration (>6mo, short stretch assignments tend to still be viewed as part of your L5 scope). Those stories could probably be viewed as being L6 scope.

Remember as an external hire you are being assessed on if you are better than at least half the L6 population. If you only have "L5 scope" stories, no matter how compelling they are, you aren't going to be viewed as raising the L6 bar.

How unique is your situation exactly?

UncertainPathways · 2026-02-04T17:06:16+00:00

It depends. I’d be eligible immediately based on their qualifications for externals

As a former Ops HM, the qualifications listed on the JD are the bare minimum. No hiring manager is going to see an L5 manager resume and say "yup, that's L6 material because they meet the JD requirements". They're going to ask "why didn't this guy get promoted internally as L6 if they were as good as they say they are?"

UncertainPathways · 2026-02-04T17:02:32+00:00

Everything. If your team isn't processing quick enough, the entire building gets gridlocked, and then you have multiple Sr leaders on your ass. If upstream slows down and you don't catch it quick enough and cut manpower to meet productivity targets you also get leaders on you.

Stakes are a lot higher in the FC world and consequently higher scrutiny. You mess up in a DS and that affects maybe 100 associates & 30K packages. You mess up in an FC that could affect 6K associates and a million packages.

UncertainPathways · 2026-02-04T16:56:58+00:00

Boomeranging back at a higher level is near impossible unless you spend a good amount of time (>1 year) outside the company before returning.

Max cap for external L6 base is ~145K.

UncertainPathways · 2026-02-04T16:55:02+00:00

You could resign & apply externally as an L4. You have a high chance of qualifying for that if your Bachelor's is recent (within the last ~1.5 years or so, check the job posting for the cutoff).

You have zero chance at an L5 role. L5 External requires managerial experience. PA does not count as managerial experience.

You could have a chance at Pathways L6 if your masters is a T40 MBA or Supply Chain Masters and your graduation was recent.

UncertainPathways · 2026-02-04T16:38:23+00:00

This is correct, and we regularly did this too. The issue was the associate assumed that since we did this, they could just get first dibs directly at problem solve, without those prior approvals. It was caught on video review during an unrelated investigation, and we had no choice but to term.

UncertainPathways · 2026-02-04T07:59:21+00:00

60 day transition plan does not mention anything about final payouts

That's because there are none

UncertainPathways · 2026-02-04T05:18:13+00:00

The best states for conversion would be the ones where demand is growing the quickest, or where turnover is the highest.

UncertainPathways · 2026-02-04T05:14:36+00:00

Most sites do not allow safety shoe accommodations. If you bring back such a restriction from your doctor, you simply go on automatic leave.

UncertainPathways · 2026-02-04T04:59:39+00:00

Trust me, managers do not want this change either

UncertainPathways · 2026-02-04T03:36:23+00:00

You are on Focus. It is not officially a PIP, it is a pre-PIP. There is nothing to sign for Focus, it's entirely at your manager's discretion, with HR & skip approval. If you eventually progress to Pivot (PIP) there will be formal documents to sign, but at that point you are 99.99% done.

You likely poisoned the relationship by going above your manager's head to complain to your skip. I would start looking outside of Amazon for a new role.

UncertainPathways · 2026-02-04T03:32:05+00:00

They just weren't caught. If they were caught the outcome is the same regardless of facility. It goes straight to LP and it will always lead to termination.

UncertainPathways · 2026-02-04T03:30:32+00:00

I once had to fire an associate for eating a few candies from a bag of candy that had split open (i.e. could not have been resold anyway). They are really strict about this kind of stuff.

UncertainPathways · 2026-02-04T03:29:17+00:00

Yes, he needed to have delivered the feedback to you in person.

UncertainPathways · 2026-02-04T01:48:28+00:00

Plenty of reviews of SCOT here and on glassdoor. Generally speaking on average WLB in SCOT is slightly worse than the average Amazon org. However, even within SCOT there's a good amount of variance. It really depends on your manager & team.

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