Amazon.com Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Amazon.com full-time for more than a year

Pros – - Innovation
- There are always big interesting problems to solve (fun projects)
- Smart, very smart people
- If you are looking for career advancement in terms of intellectual advancement and experience advancement, this place is great
- "Work hard, have fun, make history" - this really sums it up

Cons – - Tough, high expectation to deliver
- No specific process to succeed, you have to figure it out yourself and every situation is different
- If you are looking for career advancement in terms of title and ranks, you will be disappointed.

Advice to Senior Management – Stick to your leadership principles

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Amazon.com

Pros – The pay is good, you work 10 hour days and only work 4 hours. i worked the night time shift which still wasnt that bad.

Cons – It gets really hot in the summer time. Depending on your job it can get repetitive and some jobs require more exercise then others.

Advice to Senior Management – Place more water throughout the warehouse.

Current Employee – been working at Amazon.com full-time

Pros – After working here, you won't find it hard to work anywhere else. 12 hours a day would look normal to you. Perfect place for workaholics.

Cons – Mercenary managers.
Estimates become commitments.
Self imposed unreasonable deadlines.
Death marches towards those deadlines.
Lack of integrity. Being honest about the scope of work can hurt you under the pretext that you don't show bias for action.
Whatever you do is not enough. You have to believe there is room for delivering more and work extra hours to deliver more.
Your work day doesn't end when you leave the office. It spans over your evenings and weekends - until you leave the company.

Advice to Senior Management – spend at least 2% of the hiring effort in keeping existing people happy.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Amazon.com full-time

Pros – End to end ownership, leading a team from both a business and technical perspective, huge future growth potential

Cons – Work life balance, better pay, better training for managers and engineers, less politics as the orgnization evolves, focus on all geographies, transparent annual review process

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Amazon.com full-time

Pros – easy good great fast pace

Cons – goosip talking about you behind back

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Amazon.com

Pros – Smart peers, fun environment, doggies! Developers and product managers are key to the success of each team.

Cons – Middle management needs work. Not great at developing direct reports or helping them get to the next level of their career. This is my only experience on one team at Amazon. I'm hoping this is an isolated situation.

Advice to Senior Management – Need to learn to lead by example and help develop the talent they have.

Former Employee – worked at Amazon.com as an intern for more than a year

Pros – - Smart People. Barring the odd SDE/SDET, the vast majority of engineers at Amazon are really smart, motivated people who just get how things should be built
- You get to deal with really crazy problems of scale that few companies ever think about (except MS, Google, Apple and Facebook)
- If you know how to fix something, you just go and fix it
- AWS documentation is excellent with well-defined and well thought-out APIs
- Huge fleet (of machines) at your command.
- Agile and fast-moving with minimal bureaucracy
- Seattle is a beautiful city
- Great focus on the customer

Cons – - Company Culture of frugality is sometimes taken to an extreme when developers can't even get proper hardware to develop/test on sometimes
- Some Software Managers and Technical Program Managers don't necessarily meet the same quality bars that SDEs meet
- During peak times, long working hours are the norm
- Oncall means that you can be paged at 3am to solve a problem on the Website/Backend. Depends heavily on which team you work on.
- Lots of legacy code that keeps breaking resulting in people being paged frequently to fix problems. Teams that don't tackle technical debt means that these problems will continue to plague certain teams in the company. Other teams manage to get this right though.

Advice to Senior Management – Equip developers with the resources they need to succeed at times.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Amazon.com full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Culture at Amazon. and everyday is a day 1

Cons – Have seen none till now

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Amazon.com full-time for less than a year

Pros – you can work with best people their..with rigorous learning

Cons – I cant think of any

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Amazon.com as an intern for less than a year

Pros – very efficient company
good relocation service
quick reply from recruiter

Cons – so far, there is nothing bad about Amazon

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend