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Jul 27, 2009
2009-07-27 16:09 PDT
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Amazon.com – “Horrible Experience”
13 of 13 people found this helpfulPros
Large company, maybe a good place to start a career if you don't plan to stay too long.
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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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I've had to train SO many new hires due to the turnover rate, and Amazon seems to be content with that. And if someone on your team does better than you, you better believe that it's a strike against you.
For a company that has a "high bar" for hiring, they sure have a lot of employees that can't wait to leave, and this includes management. With the "high bar" for hiring, why is there so much turnover???!!!
You go through 3-5 hours of interviews and get the job, only to have "forced ranking" put upon you after a year or two (conveniently when your RSU's start kicking in.)
What comes around, goes around. All those managers that treat you like crap will get theirs someday. And if you currently work at Amazon and are reading this, there is life beyond Amazon, don't let them get you down. You are not alone.
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