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Amazon rescinding the offer while I am on the notice period

A few days ago, just before the Christmas, Amazon HR called me to inform that my offer is rescinded. The start date was Jan 2, 2023. As a gift, they will pay me a months salary.

I already resigned from my current post after obtaining the work visa for the new location on November 30th. I asked their affirmation before resigning.

Right now, I cannot relocate and my current visa became void since I resigned. I also cancelled my rent agreement. In a month, I will be on streets, without a job and visa.

In every step I tried to behave ethically and high trust. Guess I did wrong. Are all places like this?

Ps: sorry, I forgot to add. the new location was Canada. My current location is in EU.

Ps2: some background about me:

Amazon offer was for Sde2. I have 5 yoe. I have worked in several projects spanning from embedded software for airplanes to scalable cloud based data heavy backend applications.

Java/C++98 were the primary stack.

I had turned down an offer from Meta to join Amazon. I think my system design and general ds&a ability is okay. I am a good team player and perform well in friendly environment.

290 points YuryVladkov 3 years ago 176 comments

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