Amazon.com Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Amazon.com full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Culture at Amazon. and everyday is a day 1

Cons – Have seen none till now

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Amazon.com

Pros – Agility, learning fast changing environment

Cons – Fast changing environment, lots of iterations

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Amazon.com

Pros – + culture and values
+ Start up spirit

Cons – work life balance can improve

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Amazon.com full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – 1) Working with a lot of smart people
2) Learn a lot in you field

Cons – 1) Hectic work environment and will be very difficult in the initial years

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Amazon.com full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – There are lots of opportunities to learn and try different jobs. Coworkers are smart and motivated. The company thinks long term and is constantly innovating. Employees are empowered to drive change.

Cons – The company lacks processes in certain areas. Training is limited but getting better. Good place if you like to work in an unstructured environment.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep up the good work.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Amazon.com full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – I feel happy to work for Amazon.com. management is employee friendly. It's all about customers and their satisfaction.

Cons – Considers only metrics even though you have a good process knowledge.
Should increase the pay scale. No other cons found.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Amazon.com full-time for less than a year

Pros – Opportunities to influence change are abundant. Continuous change, so if you don't like something...just wait around a bit. Lots of OT during the holidays.

Cons – Long days. Can be stressful depending on your position. Lots of OT during the holidays.

Advice to Senior Management – Try to be as transparent as possible...it allows your associates to accept change easier.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Amazon.com

Pros – It was a lot of fun working for the company, and spending time learning a lot of new types of things.

Cons – You work lots of long hours, which cuts into your family time, and creates more stress for you and everyone else.

Current Employee – been working at Amazon.com full-time for less than a year

Pros – Being full time, you do receive great benefits--health, paid time off, vacation time, etc.
You get to work with a lot of different people. And get to know a lot of people as time goes on.
As well there are times to do culture activities.

Cons – Due to working in a warehouse setting, lines or sorters get jammed here and there, thus stopping the work flow. As well after peak season, managers get rotated and you have to get used to various managing styles.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep a balance among shifts when it comes to overtime, sometimes it feels some shifts get more and others get out of overtime. As well have processes in place when it comes to doing skip pick auditing (i.e. one shift has auditors turn into leads, another to someone else).

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Amazon.com as an intern for more than a year

Pros – - Smart People. Barring the odd SDE/SDET, the vast majority of engineers at Amazon are really smart, motivated people who just get how things should be built
- You get to deal with really crazy problems of scale that few companies ever think about (except MS, Google, Apple and Facebook)
- If you know how to fix something, you just go and fix it
- AWS documentation is excellent with well-defined and well thought-out APIs
- Huge fleet (of machines) at your command.
- Agile and fast-moving with minimal bureaucracy
- Seattle is a beautiful city
- Great focus on the customer

Cons – - Company Culture of frugality is sometimes taken to an extreme when developers can't even get proper hardware to develop/test on sometimes
- Some Software Managers and Technical Program Managers don't necessarily meet the same quality bars that SDEs meet
- During peak times, long working hours are the norm
- Oncall means that you can be paged at 3am to solve a problem on the Website/Backend. Depends heavily on which team you work on.
- Lots of legacy code that keeps breaking resulting in people being paged frequently to fix problems. Teams that don't tackle technical debt means that these problems will continue to plague certain teams in the company. Other teams manage to get this right though.

Advice to Senior Management – Equip developers with the resources they need to succeed at times.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company