Are the details of the renumeration of how many months that the amazon is liable to pay to employee as a part of severance, not mentioned in the terms of employment? or is not informed at all beforehand?
4 year tenure. $160K base salary. I know the calculation for PIP severance. Wondering what the severance would be for layoff
Goodbye Amazon! I started as a delivery driver then jumped to L4 AM (university hire) been with the company 5 years and just left as an L5.
Had the biggest smile walking out the door after turning badge in.
Moving on to a better gig with a $20k pay bump and a $17k severance package from Amazon. My departure was perfectly calculated with a little bit of luck.
Happy holidays and best of luck to everyone in here! Y’all have made me laugh over the last few years
I got put on focus 1 month ago. The task involved customer facing change and expectation was to take it to prod. Having almost delivered the task, I was expecting good remark from my manager but was surprised to hear their opinion (they aren’t happy with my delivery). My 6weeks of focus will be done soon and afaik, I’ll be offered with either pip or severance. How do I go about telling my manager that I want severance instead?
How much severance do people get btw?
I'm an L7 who got let go from Amazon in a mass layoff (i.e., not performance related). Does anyone know if Amazon negotiates severance at all or is it more of a "take it or leave it" situation?
Is there anyone here who recently went through the pivot/PIP process and was offered the payout?
Can you drop in your base salary, tenure, and the amount they offered you?
Trying to calculate how much I’ll get when the inevitable happens :)
UPDATE - Already in the comments but bringing up here. Thank you u/MrHaVoC805!
Payout = 10 weeks of base pay + (basepay * 1%) * (tenure in months /12)
My example
Pivot Payment - Pre-Tax: $24,495.63
Base Annual: $88,600
Tenure: 8.42 years (101 months)
$88,600/52 = $1,703.85
$1,703.85 * 10 = $17,038.46
$88,600 x 0.01 = $886
$24,495.63 = $17,038.46 + ($886 x (101/12))
After taxes, I ended up with closer to $17.5k (absolute robbery) but that of course depends on your own tax deductions.
Recently took severance instead of pivot. I was given the option last week. And I took it on Tuesday. I get paid on Fridays, but my direct deposit normally hits on Wednesday. I checked A to Z and only see my regular paystub with no severance attached. How long does it normally take? And does it normally come separately?
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Doing some fact-finding for a friend who is not on reddit. They were laid off recently and got the typical continued employment for 60 days pay and benefits. At the end they will get some severance lump sum pay out.
Question: if they accept a new job before the 60 days, do they need to tell Amazon and will they stop paying out for the remain days and the severance? They have asked HR pointedly and asked for documentation, but are not being given anything.
I’ve heard that many BIEs and data professionals have been laid off recently. It’s quite unsettling to see, and I’m feeling anxious both as an employee, since it could happen at my company too and as a job seeker, knowing that many of those laid-off professionals will now be competing in the job market alongside me.
Hi,
As mentioned in the news, Amazon is expecting to cut 30K jobs worldwide: https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/amazon-targets-many-30000-corporate-job-cuts-sources-say-2025-10-27/
In case of mass layoffs like this, how does that work in Japan? Since the company isn’t going through financial issues, would Amazon needs to provide severance package for all employees? What if the employee doesn’t accept?
I tried to search about this but couldn’t find anything concrete.
Thanks
just got notified yesterday that ive been put on pip. i started amazon late 2023 as a new grad with a broken team that was brand new, 4 engineers in total (however 2 were m.i.a. and on leave, and the other was just way too busy) both my manager and skip manager quit within the first few months, reasons including my skip skip manager, which eventually became my new manager. since the team was new, there wasnt much built and strong lack of documentation. the new manager was pretty absent for a couple months, and all of a sudden started really investing time into the team. during this time i got assigned a project that was proposed to be small, but ended up taking me 6 months. i got put on pip because i missed the deadline (but with good reason), and lack of communication/updates (despite me becoming more communicative these past couple of weeks because he raised concern, manager even brought up not sending things when... i literally did). the pip expectations are quite hefty -- i do think i can do them, but at what cost? ive been working 9 am - 12 am almost everyday the past month, including weekends occasionally to finish my project (with no support from my team, despite requesting). ive experienced so much mental stress and pain, including health issues from the pressure recently. i admit i had a slow start, but i genuinely believe i did the best i could with the circumstances i was given.
i want to take the severance, but is it a good idea? especially with this job market? would i even be able to apply for sde 2 roles or do i just resort to sde 1. even if i do take pip, will i be considered for promotion ever?
Got a final written. Walked out by HR and signed my appeal for I believe I don’t deserve. Written up for mediums rate being to low. I get put on south and idk how everyone’s building is set up. But south side gets nothing but single item boxes or totes. There’s been no work at my site for weeks. Vto out the ass. I can’t control what’s coming to my station. But I’ve only gotten single items(tide pods, “ice flavored water”) the usual. So hopefully my appeal goes my way. *Also noted I’ve been working for Amazon for 5 years 11 months. 7 managers and all my write ups have come from current manager. Older guy, I believe has it out for me. Most importantly just wanted to know if anyone has gotten severance pay? In case my appeal doesn’t go my way
Has anyone negotiated their PIVOT payout with (or without) lawyers and can share the experience?
I know it is technically not negotiable, but it is not legally binding.
I had a legal consultation and my lawyer believes I might have a case of constructive dismissal. He wants to claim one year base salary + 100k of damage compensation. This is a lot of money for me. The thing is, I saw people saying the lawyers negotiated longer insurance coverage, but that is about it, Amazon was firm on the buyout amount. In this case, I would lose both time and money, and stress myself to get less. I do not need prolonged coverage, I am interested in the offered money only.
I am in Canada, but stories from across the world are very welcome.