AdvertisementA year later, I got the opportunity to return to Amazon as a boomerang employee.
I'd always been told that a value at Amazon was to treat "the candidate as a customer," but didn't experience that.
Related storiesRTO implementation was inconsistentA few weeks later, in May 2024, I accepted a different offer from Amazon for a Nashville-based role on another team I'd applied for.
My layoff should've been the writing on the wall — this place has changed — but I clung to the idea of the Amazon I'd once respected, not wanting to recognize what it had become.
The Amazon I joined in 2016 thrummed a "fail fast and often" mentality, encouraging risk-taking that led to delightful innovations.
Persons:
I'd, —, he'd, should've, Andy Jassy, Margaret Callahan, Stephanie Ramos, Jane Zhang
Organizations:
Amazon, Nashville, LinkedIn's, Companies, Technology
Locations:
Nashville, Atlanta