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Jeff Bezos
4 Ratings
Pros
We get to learn a lot of things on the job (in 384 reviews)
Work life balance for your personal hobbies/projects (in 272 reviews)
Cons
Work life balance is not easy to maintain (in 1831 reviews)
No work life balance around the holidays (in 401 reviews)
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"Manager"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Amazon full-time (Less than a year)
Pros
Good pay, fast paced environment. Good people. You have to make your own mark abd work hard. Lots of opportunities to move up!
Cons
Lot of work, especially prime day. You might have to work different shifts. You have to keep your eye on the prize!!!
Advice to Management
Keep the focus on the people
Amazon 2017-08-10 01:58 PDT![Amazon Logo]()
"Great Company, Better Office"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Amazon full-time (More than a year)
Pros
- Wide variety of challenging problems to solve and plenty of work to be done
- The compensation is top notch. Even as a college grad SDE you'll probably be paid what a senior engineer is paid at the other large companies in Detroit. If you stay for a few years you'll be treated with much stock.
- Office is very friendly and there's plenty of community-building events driven by a great office manager
- Yes, you can transfer to Seattle just fine should you want to do thatCons
- Monthly On call rotations with typically pretty heavy operational load.
- Sometimes recently it seems like empire building is the true motivation behind some decisions (though it can always be framed with some LP like Customer Obsession)Advice to Management
Favor keeping the small, friendly startup feel of the office over building an empire
Amazon 2017-07-26 14:33 PDT![Amazon Logo]()
"Software Engineer"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOPros
Great work-life balance. Amazon has a great system to feel like you are a part of something bigger.
Cons
Did not get to build meaningful connections that I hoped at a company like Amazon Many of the workers are fairly separated from each other, a fratty atmosphere.
Advice to Management
Remember to keep things running like a startup. As soon as you stray from it, the path goes downhill.
Amazon 2016-12-15 19:26 PST![Amazon Logo]()
"Distribution Center"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookI have been working at Amazon full-time (More than 10 years)
Pros
Need extra employment during the day.
Cons
There are none as long as it's a replicable company
Advice to Management
I have worked in management for 25 years. Very strong work ethic
Amazon 2016-07-14 20:07 PDTHelpful (3)
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"Too much Ops with too little training"
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I worked at Amazon full-time (Less than a year)
Pros
Dynamic work environment with
Cons
Too much operational work. It was overwhelming and frustrating to see how much one had to rely on manual processes when some tool development could have saved everyone a lot.
Advice to Management
Focus on tool development. Focus on structured training for ops. If the average developers spend more than 50% of their time outside of an IDE, then something is not right.
Amazon 2015-10-28 06:34 PDT![Amazon Logo]()
"President"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookI have been working at Amazon full-time (More than a year)
Pros
I worked too many hours
Cons
I love my job a lot
Amazon 2015-04-08 20:13 PDTHelpful (9)
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"Work hard, have a huge impact"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Amazon full-time (Less than a year)
Pros
+ Your work will likely be seen and used by millions
+ Fantastic company values that people actually care about
+ Great co-workers and transparent managementCons
- Fairly stressful environment
- Monthly on-call rotationAdvice to Management
Frugality shouldn't mean it's not the default to have the best tools for the job (dual monitors, newer computers) even if it's possible to get these things without too much trouble. Otherwise, I wouldn't change a thing!
Amazon 2013-06-09 08:40 PDT
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