Amazon.com Reviews

I have been working at Amazon.com full-time

Pros – For an engineer, not excited about the roller-coaster ride in a start-up, it cannot get any better than Amazon. You will get to work of technologies that need to scale to cater million if customer, and hundreds of million requests made by these customers. With AWS as backbone, and working with tons of in-house and open source technologies, you will gain invaluable experience, which ensure both technical and financial growth. The companies motto of being frugal and passing the saving to the customer will ensure you always come up with the right engineering solution to problem.

Cons – Good pay, but not a lot of extra perks. Limited financial growth at the company, but it prepares you for good financial growth outside the company.

Advice to Senior Management – Invest a bit more in employees

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

I have been working at Amazon.com full-time for less than a year

Pros – High hiring bar ensures smart teammates

Cons – Everyone is overworked.
Ops load is pretty high.

Advice to Senior Management – Dont set aggressive deadlines

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

I worked at Amazon.com

Pros – They work you hard, which occasionally leads to burnout, but the work tends to be quite interesting, which makes the whole process satisfying.

Cons – Minimal perks, frugal is an understatement, but occasionally it's to the point of penny pinching. Depending on your team, there may be as little as no team building type activities, though I've heard tales of other teams that do beer and boardgames and pizza quite frequently

Advice to Senior Management – If yo have a budget to spend on your team, spend it! It's there to make sure your team is working in tip top shape. It may not seem like much but when there's a little bit of tangible gratitude for the work we've been putting in, it's quite uplifting.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Amazon.com

Pros – DIY attitude. The compensation was good. People were very friendly.

Cons – DIY attitude. If you are not used to patching things up with duct tape, then this is not the company for you. The management can be non-existent and ineffective at times. You must be the type of person who can work in ambiguity.

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

I have been working at Amazon.com full-time

Pros – You will get 5 years of IT experience in only one year of employment. It is a fast-paced, highly-intellectual environment.

Cons – It is a fast-paced, highly-intellectual environment. If you are not ready for it, it will be a challenging time.

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

I have been working at Amazon.com full-time for more than a year

Pros – Company is very competitive as far as wages and benefits. They offer good hours and regularly offer overtime. They treat everyone fairly and getting hired or promoted is a sinch if you work for it. I have never worked for a company that has such a strong culture on saftey and customer obsession. They do a good job at giving credit to the associates and put them in the spot light.

Cons – The building is a bit far from my home. The hours are a little outragious during the holiday season. The H.R. department is a little lacking in the overnight hours.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep it up

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

I have been working at Amazon.com full-time for more than a year

Pros – Opportunity for limitless growth with willingness to put in the work

Cons – 12+ hour days regularly, over very large work force

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

I have been working at Amazon.com full-time

Pros – professional career growth great work place good camaraderie with fellow colleagues
career development advice and good work ethics
everybody is pushing for the same goals centered on the customer (big difference with Microsoft). Promotions are gated by well written promo guidelines with focus on delivery, and impact, not on internal politics. People spend less time campaigning for their own promotions (seen cons). Much better healthy relationships between teams/orgs/people. TOP performers are heavily compensated.”

Cons – Less levels than at MS, hence promotions are farther apart. Most individual contributor job families only have 4 levels (junior, mid, senior, principal) with very few people in the upper two levels.
Big raise on promotion happen less frequently. Average raises for the average people. Most people from MS usually come at one level down (principal -> senior, senior lead to MGR III).

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Amazon.com full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – great pay, nice people and extremely good environment. As a mid 20's male with a Bsc and Msc - this was everything I wanted and more

Cons – it can be tough to get noticed and have your work appreciated. they do work you hard but it is to be expected

Advice to Senior Management – Recognize people more!

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

I have been working at Amazon.com full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – At Amazon the perfect is not the enemy of the good. It's a place where one can produce good work quickly along with a plan for incremental improvement that moves toward perfection.
Lots of resources means that although Amazon may be behind in an area; when the business sees that something is important, it can ramp quickly to the status of parity and even as a pace setter. Lots of ownership. Lots of latitude to resolve ambiguity in creative ways. RSUs are super! Relocation! Cash bonus at signing! Royal treatment during recruiting!

Cons – Siloed. Managment by project sometimes makes people managers of project managers. As a result, it can be hard to get support for personal development.
The pace of work is often too fast to deliver the "highest quality". So rework is often required.
Leadership principles are excellent as a guide, but could use improvement in consistent execution. More time should be spent developing people and modeling the leadership principles and core competencies.

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