Forte isn’t used to withhold comp. It’s just a development tool. That’s why it was always held in January after end of year comp. If your manager told you otherwise, they are being passive-aggressive about your prospects.

Second, if you’re a fifth year L5, start interviewing now. L5 technically is a terminal level (is that still a thing there?) but you aren’t supposed to spend five years at that level.

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scarface_74 6 days ago | parent [-]

Ingenii (sp? I have been gone for two years) was where you put your accomplishments and goals. But Forte is (was?) where your management and peer feedback is managed.

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master_crab 5 days ago | parent [-]

That sounds right. But there was a reason forte was always at the start of year after the end of year comps. So that it wasn’t factored into performance. It’s been a few years since I was at AWS but unless that changed, that’s a key reason why it was always meant to be a development tool. Not a comp tool.

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scarface_74 5 days ago | parent [-]

Just the opposite, Forte was where your management and peer feedback was and where you found your award for your comp. It actually went down in 2021 during review time because of volume. I was in AWS ProServe and the joke was that maybe we should go multi cloud for resilliance.

	▲	master_crab 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		They must have changed it, because forte had zero comp related stuff in it when I was there. Purely a 360 process.