Amazon Lab126 Reviews

Pros

You can find many opportunities to learn and develop new skills. Teams do arrange many online fun activities. Depending upon the businesses/teams you support, you can get the opportunity to work on different type of roles. Most of the teams are very close knit and team members are very supportive.

Cons

The work can be very hectic and lots of competition if you are working on just Software Engineering roles.

Pros

good compensation, some flexibility, large range of projects to work on

Cons

return to office, bad culture

Pros

Learning a lot from smart people

Cons

Work life balance was not good

Pros

Great products designed at a solid price point to consumers.

Cons

Unpredictable leadership, does not care about data/metrics or work life balance.

Pros

Salary, company status, resume builder

Cons

Work life balance, mental happiness, personal growth

Pros

Compensation is great, especially out of college. The perks are par.

Cons

Will have a different holiday schedule than the rest of your team depending on where they live. Whereas most other IT companies are off for holiday weeks. Amazon will have you working all week except for just that holiday. So in 2022, had to work the whole Christmas and New Years weeks since the holiday's were on the weekend.

Pros

- Very good salary/RSU package. That's how they lure you in.

Cons

- Environment: To understand the environment at Amazon Lab126 imagine working for a startup... running out of money.... located in India. This is the type of environment you will be in. - NO Diversity: I have lot of Indian friends but Amazon Lab126 is ridicurous. Almost 90% of Engineers in Sunnyvale campus are Indians on H-1B visa so if you're Indian then you will feel at home. Literally :) If the dysfunctional department of Equal Employment Opportunity is doing its job they would have fined Amazon billions of $$$ for violating EEO rules and replacing U.S. citizens with H1-B engineers.

Pros

Enjoyed the relationships built and respected my leaders who helped me grow. The principles that we followed, allowed me from time to time to explore my potential.

Cons

Processes that were useless and added wasted layers that did not make an impact. at times I felt that I did not have much support and that asking for help was a red flag. When you're told to partner/make mistakes/be resourceful with your own ideas, it comes back to bite you as needing improvement. How do you excel if you're expected to be perfect forever. There was no time to work on getting promoted with such a heavy workload.

Pros

Being part of the first wave of layoffs, I didn't have to constantly worry about my job security over the holidays.

Cons

Corner-cutting and hotfixes made work a nightmare, which was frequent.

Pros

Good development process Talented and passionate engineers Strong collaboration and communication on new product developments Discipline around DOE and NTI

Cons

Inconsistency in leadership CYA pervasive among some teams Volume of late meetings