Pros
Large company, maybe a good place to start a career if you don't plan to stay too long.
Cons
Horrible experience. Nepitism, favoritism, lying, distrust, forcing out one employee after another. Seriously, I have never seen anything like it. Easily the worst employee experience of my career. Every three to six months management seems to pick a certain percentage of employees and force them out. These are quality, hard working, dedicated employees. Your manager will take credit for all that works well and zero responsiblity. Also will not support employees. Culture runs contrary to all modern management. Each quarterly meeting they have all of the new employees stand up, and 40% of the room stands. I thought it was impressive as it showed growth, but I suspect it is mostly turnover. Very very sad.
Advice to Senior Management
Get a grip. Employees are the most valuable asset. Stop all dishonest practices. Look at who is leaving and who is being promoted and why. Bezos talks a good sound clip, but either has no idea what is happening below him or is well aware and doesn't care. Foolish arrogance.
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Amazon is an employee mill. Mentoring was pretty much non-existent except for the top 10% of employees. Managment took credit for your successes and left you high-and dry for your short commings. There are many cool things about Amazon culture. Management practices and organizational health are not among them.
Pay seems generous until considered on an hourly basis.
If you're interested in organizational Darwinism, Amazon is a wonderful place to watch that experiment unfold.
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