Amazon.com Reviews

Pros

-Casual, but intense work environment, surround by smart and engaging people
-Relaxed dress code (jeans, t-shirts, etc.)
-Great environment if you are a "peculiar" Amazonian
-Right in the city, with great access to restaurants, shopping, etc.

Cons

-Expensive lunch options (~$10+), since there are no company subsidized cafeterias
-Parking is costly, and public transit is OK
-Benefits are OK, but not on par with Google or MSFT

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up the great work and keep the emphasis on mainting the current culture. Continue hiring great talent, even if it's challenging getting the right people.

Pros

I believe that this job requires that you have a strong work ethic. By having a strong work ethic will lead to personal growth within the company.

Cons

Sometime the work conditions are not hospitable due to the heat during the summer. This is due to poor planning.

Advice to Senior Management

Management needs to correlate sometime to achieve the overall goals that are present everyday in the Amazon.com fulfillment center

Pros

Challenging, always an insurmountable mountain of work and opportunity.
The very best talent I have ever been a part of.
Impactful work that is felt by our customers.
Historic growth.

Cons

Throw Quality of Life out the window.
If you need accolades, don't come here.
If you want to develop and you need others to help you, don't come here.
Communication - very poor here. You have to bull ahead in a direction that feels right.

Advice to Senior Management

Take better care of your people. When the economy swings to the positive, we will run out of talent to hunt. Focus on retention and diversity, engagement and community support.

Pros

Smart people, fast moving company. Compensation is stock oriented, so timing plays a role.
Very customer oriented and frugal. Great for customers.

Cons

High burn out rate, no measurement of ROI on projects, focus on "buzzword" projects/services
which do not generate revenue or profit.

Advice to Senior Management

Company is getting too big and decisions across divisions are at cross purposes. Too many layers and still a "manual" company requiring lots of people power.

Pros

high growth and high compensation

Cons

High Pressure job. Should have better work life balance

Pros

Pay
Lots to learn
Movement with in the facilities

Cons

Long hours
No holidays off to spend with family
Always on call
Working 14 - 16 hour days
Being moved from location to location
Non conveyable operations very disorganized in comparison to sortable operations
Little direction and feedback

Advice to Senior Management

Need to treat your employees as humans and not robots. People are not effective with long hours and little rest.

Pros

- Flexibility to change jobs and roles

Cons

- No strategy work
- Mundane work
- Repetitive work
- Top down company
- Not much to learn after some time
- A yes boss company

Pros

Stock payouts
Good Insurance
Raises until you max out in 3 years... @ $16/hr.
Challenges every day.
Good experience managing large number of associates.

Cons

ZERO work life balance. When requesting time off, I get dirty looks from my managers.
Almost no communications between tier 3's and management
Almost no recognition from superiors.
I find myself training managers who are supposed to be developing me.

Pros

Good reputation, learn a lot, leadership, time management, independent, have to act very quickly and effeciently, learn how to build trust among coworker, learn how to earn respect from coworkers, learn how to survive and get things done to meet deadline

Cons

no balance of life and work too much pressure

Advice to Senior Management

more caring

Pros

fast pace growing company with a lot of opportunity to learn the coolest technology in the world. good salary too.

Cons

poor work life balance, not enough training, have too carry a pager, too many interviews take away my work time.

Advice to Senior Management

keep the stock price as high as possible as it is the way to attract talent. once stock price clapses, people will run away