Amazon.com Reviews

Pros

Great place for Yes men

Cons

No idea what skills are of numerous personnel. Do not want or desire honest feedback and appear to only want to please senior staff and get promoted rather that do what actually helps the company. Start up new programs with little expertise or thought.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to the experts that know what they are doing rather than some guy whose a yes man and just wants more money

Pros

- learn about eCommerce
- learn about the product management, managing metrics

Cons

- limited professional growth opportunity
- too many A type personalities (company loves to hire MBAs) for too few opportunities

Advice to Senior Management

- leadership. I am yet to meet a good leader at Amazon
- developing and growing people is not Amazon's core skill

Pros

- smart people all around
- ambitious people/problems to be solved
- work has direct customer impact
- good place for starting out

Cons

- cliquish culture > immature
- loudest guy wins culture
- difficult to have a work life balance; issue for folks with families
- pager-pains
- scattered hiring process

Pros

Great people, innovative, lots going on

Cons

Be prepared to be eaten alive. Nights and weekends are the norm.

Pros

It's a great place to learn about all aspects of the online business. There are plenty of opportunities across the company and employees are encouraged to explore opportunities throughout the company.

Cons

It can be a burn and churn company.

Advice to Senior Management

Employees are your greatest asset. There should be just as much focus on developing what you have as there is in recruiting new blood.

Pros

money is really good you know

Cons

working environments are as hell

Advice to Senior Management

make a better place to work

Pros

Very fast growth, opportunities abound. Great environment for type "A" personalities. Some of the hardest working people I've ever met.

Cons

Disorganized with hardly any follow up from peers on assisting new employees in regards to learning the specification of the job or company culture in general. You're on your own for the most part.

Advice to Senior Management

Better training and mentoring, more individualized assistance rather than everything done in groups.

Pros

Being able to work from home is good, they give you all the equipment needed to get your home office set up.

Cons

The training for WFH associates is a joke. 3 weeks and I didn't learn even half the stuff I would encounter in the day to day calls. Not quite sure who my management team is, except for one person. Other associates can be very unpleasant during transfers.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your associates when they reach out to you for help. Offer better training for the WFH department. Don't allow teams to grow so large that management has no idea who you are.

Pros

Good place with lots of +ve energy

Cons

Will not find time for family. Health needs lot of care. Will not have time

Advice to Senior Management

Need to consider personal life of employees.

Pros

good oppurtunity for future growth

Cons

no proper supply chain management handling customer querry should be good