Amazon.com Reviews

Pros

Constant expansion means strong likelihood of promotion
Stock value consistently rising
4 day work week

Cons

Expectation of managers to work 50-60 hours during normal weeks, 70-80 during holiday season.
Will work one day of the weekend
Will have to work at least 12 hours per day
Zero job perks, i.e. free food, gym membership, discounts etc.
Zero positive feedback, stellar performance is expected. Satisfactory performance is not tolerated.
Manual labor required as management.

Advice to Senior Management

Treat junior management as more than a work horse to deliver results. If a manager consistently increases his or her shifts overall throughput, that is worthy of praise, not criticism for some other facet of their job description.

Pros

Fast growth opens many positions to advance your career.
Stock Price.

Cons

Most Horrible Work Conditions for employees.
Incompetent Regional/Senior Management who know nothing of how business runs daily but make all decisions.
No recognition for hard work and/or smart decisions.
Too many changes that dont make sense and create lot of churn.
Poorest work life balance.
Lack of good systems and infrastructure to support employees who then have to make up through working even more.

Advice to Senior Management

Be the most customer centric company on earth, but try to also be an employee centric company too.

Pros

Meet smart and competent people, excel your leadership and communication skills.

Cons

It demands a good level of prioritization, if you can't do that you'll end up with too many things to do.

Pros

Pay is decent
Easy work
It's no problem to make rate as long as you don't goof off.
Met some grreat people there.

Cons

Temp job.
Management had no idea who I was after 3 months of being there.
No benefits
Laid off during the middle of a working day with no notice.

Advice to Senior Management

Take time to get to know your employees maybe? I know that they hire a lot of seasonal wokerers, but still.

Pros

Compensation including salary and benefits was great in the area I worked. The co-workers and work environment was friendly and there was rarely an issue. Opportunities to work from home were available.

Cons

Overtime is required and at times in large quantities. After awhile the amount of hours your are required to work can wear you down emotionally and physically. Interdepartmental communication is poor at best. A good starter job, but unless you make your way up the ranks this jobs can wear you out.

Advice to Senior Management

Communication. Treat your ill employees like people.

Pros

Great Company...to be a customer of, and to be an hourly associate of. A lot of room for advancement if you enjoy the Amazon environment. People who work there are for the most part Okay, the Amazon culture is terrible.

Cons

If you want a life outside of Amazon do not be a manager. If you wan to enjoy your life, do not be a manager.

Advice to Senior Management

Good luck! with 100% turnover at Amazon, you must not have another opportunity elsewhere if you stay. Way to go management, hopefully senior management some day will get better.

Pros

Amazon has the smartest and most passionate people you will ever work with. The scale and type of problems to be solved are unlike anything anywhere in the world and will give you an incredible experience that can be used anywhere else.

Cons

Most of the managers at Amazon are great, but some of them - especially those thrust into the role - lack empathy and often expect far too much of people. Make sure during your interview, you understand how the manager operates. A great manager will mean an amazing experience.

Advice to Senior Management

Ensure your managers have empathy training and have appropriate people skills to understand this is a long term proposition.

Pros

1) Fast-paced
2) Results-focused
3) Smart co-workers
4) Frugal

Cons

1) Fast-paced
2) Results-focused
3) Smart co-workers
4) Frugal

As a software engineer,
1) you will have operational load (on-call).
2) there will be huge amount of tribal knowledge usually poorly documented and not much valuable outside Amazon.
3) there will not be much time for some serious development. Everything comes quick and goes quick.

Advice to Senior Management

None.

Pros

- good carrier options
- good knowledge exchange
- vast variate of workings
- high safety standards (to high sometimes)

Cons

- payment and bonus are low (below average at least)
- shift times are hard and very awkward for family/social life

Advice to Senior Management

Don't go over your head because of 45% growth, think about the people who are covering this or it will backfire at you.

Pros

Innovation and forward thinking of senior leadership.

Cons

Competitive salary and focus on frugality.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep building cool stuff and focusing on customers.