Amazon.com Reviews

Pros

Fast paced environment with great customer focus. Lots of cool new ideas being worked on and major investment in ideas for the future.

Cons

work life balance is not always great.

Advice to Senior Management

Balance speed of execution with how employees are treated in the process.

Pros

the job is stable. colleagues is nice

Cons

not well organized company. big pressure and busy

Advice to Senior Management

should constantly heeded the opinions of the employees

Pros

Great compensation. Extremely fast growing company. Amazon shares with you how they manage one of the largest supply chains and how there are able to handle their operations to meet high demands.

Cons

Amazon encounters many problems day to day with their operations. This creates tension between managers within fulfillment centers. They are growing at such a fast rate it can be overwhelming for employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Communicate the aspects of the internship more clearly. The desires of an intern's manager gets in the way of the desires of HR and what they are looking for in return from the interns.

Pros

If you can get away from the legacy technology there's a lot of cool new stuff being worked on, and the people there are generally brilliant and passionate. It's a good place to learn a lot about technology and best practices.

Cons

Your job has to come before your life -- beyond the dreaded pager rotation, people routinely work evenings and weekends at home, and in general you need to have your head in the job 24/7.

Amazon has a deservedly bad reputation for how it treats low-level employees, partners, and basically everyone it does business with. Not a place to work if you want to have a warm fuzzy feeling about your employer.

Pros

Great people, autonomy, ownership, fast-paced and innovating environment.

Cons

Work life balance can be improved a little. Better planning from management and business for product releases earlier in the dev lifecycle. Benefits could be improved.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep Amazonians happy - by whatever means necessary.

Pros

Still very hot. Could add value to your resume.

Cons

Just want to say this place made me bone-tired, mentally. It really reaches the point that I don't want to fight it anymore. Fair or unfair, does it matter? I don't really care. One thing I definitely learned is: Don't work hard, cuz it's gonna be counted against you at the end of the day. Work "smart", cuz nobody remembers your accomplishment.

Advice to Senior Management

Nothing as it doesn't matter. I guess current status works out great for them, it really depends on where you are in the food chain.

Pros

The salary and signing bonus are pretty good.
Amazon might look good on your resume.
You may gain a good reference or two.

Cons

Pay is ultimately lower than most companies, due to the number of hours required to perform the three jobs you are doing, for the one job offer you accepted.
Too many meetings, not enough meeting minutes.
Lack of communication between departments.
Fighting fires daily can grow tiresome.
Unrealistic project deployment dates.
No work/life balance.

Advice to Senior Management

Look at the attrition rates by department and focus on retaining your employees like you focus on keeping your customers. If you don't respect your own workers, then don't expect them to stay very long.

Pros

Opportunity to learn how to develop software that is Web Scale.

Cons

Company rewards narcissism over hard work. Encourages people to share the bad about their fellow employees. Management makes most promotion decisions based on heresy rather than direct observation and knowledge.

Beware of bonuses offered by Amazon. If you leave before the vesting period you could end up owing Amazon more than you actually received. Example suppose you receive 30K in signing bonuses and relocation expenses, and you decide to leave or are let go before your 24 months is up. Amazon pre-deducts the taxes for your bonuses up front, so you may only actually get a check for 20K and the other 10K goes to the government. If you leave after the tax cycle ends, then Amazon will want back their full 30K and you will have to figure out how to get the rest back from the IRS on your own. Also, even if you pay them the full 30K there is a very high degree of possibility that they will not send you an updated W2 and will hope you just let them keep the 10K tax free.

BTW the full 30K would be due and payable within 30 days of termination.

They don't call it claw-back for nothing

Advice to Senior Management

Please stay at Amazon, I don't think I would like you to come to work at my company.

Pros

You have to do everything yourself. Its almost like working in a start up.

Cons

They are so bloody frugal that a developer has to play the role of a PM, QA,SDE-T,build engineer and all others, which leaves no time for development.

Advice to Senior Management

Please treat your employees well.

Pros

The only pro I can think of is that the hiring process was very very fast, maybe too fast for me to make an informed decission to work there.

Cons

The list can be so long. hard back breaking work, not easy on the body. the company and management treat you like a slave. more than 1 second late from a break and you get writen up. Written up really? is this Jr. High? Break starts from the time you leave your "station" and it takes 5 minutes to walk to break area. So in a sense your break is only 5 minutes long.

Management has an attitude that they are better than you.

It's a low paying job at only $12.50 an hour and you are rated on how many packages you handle on top of that.

bad company policies for employee's

Advice to Senior Management

Get a clue how to treat people. People are not numbers, we are not machines. Have a little humanity. You are a manager in a wearhouse, get over yourself, you are not that special. maybe do something about company policy as well.