Amazon.com Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Amazon.com

Pros – A lot of opportunities for newbies

Cons – Management teams change often unexpectedly

Advice to Senior Management – Keep entire dev team motivated for new ideas and products

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 – Smart people, innovative culture,interesting work

Cons – Nothing that I can say right 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 full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Amazon has been good to me and has taught me things I would have never learned elsewhere. There are many opportunities if you work hard enough.

Cons – Communication between departments and on a facility wide level. Disorganization in some areas.

Advice to Senior Management – Engage your associates, appreciate the smallest jobs because without or associates, we wouldn't have a job.

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

Former Employee – worked at Amazon.com full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – I have learned a lot from Amazon. There is a lot of innovation there and I could image to go back any time.

Cons – There is one thing that I did not like at all. It is the performance reviews process and specially the calibration that was done by some people that had no idea of the team members of a group.

Advice to Senior Management – Don't spend so much time with performance reviews

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Amazon.com full-time

Pros – easy good great fast pace

Cons – goosip talking about you behind back

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 a year

Pros – - Innovation
- There are always big interesting problems to solve (fun projects)
- Smart, very smart people
- If you are looking for career advancement in terms of intellectual advancement and experience advancement, this place is great
- "Work hard, have fun, make history" - this really sums it up

Cons – - Tough, high expectation to deliver
- No specific process to succeed, you have to figure it out yourself and every situation is different
- If you are looking for career advancement in terms of title and ranks, you will be disappointed.

Advice to Senior Management – Stick to your leadership principles

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

Former Employee – worked at Amazon.com full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Very Good, exciting work. Good direction from Bezos

Cons – No work life balance. Too much 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 – Amazon promotes leadership skills to every job type and level. It sets clear guidelines as to what is expected out of one's job role to become a good leader. Amazon values its culture fit and put a lot of efforts in hiring people who resonates with these leadership principles. Goal setting is pretty aggressive and pushes people to their limit to achieve that goal.
For a young software engineer Amazon has all that is needed to grow in the industry and excel in her career.

Cons – Work-Life balance couldn't be maintained all the time since Goals are aggressive. It is in the philosophy to have stretched Goals (and not easy goals) so everybody is under more or less stress. One has to handle this stress in order to survive in Amazon.

Advice to Senior Management – Giving good compensation and focusing on employees' workplace satisfaction would help the employees cope up with this increased stress. Somehow Amazon's higher management does not seem to value its employees' well being. This reflects in poor workplace amenities in various offices in comparison to other big companies like Google or Facebook. Frugality is taken to its extreme in this sense. People leave the company when they cannot cope up with the stress though the work they get may be challenging and satisfying.

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 – Job stability and growth of the company

Cons – Takes to long ti move up the ladder

Advice to Senior Management – Its all about the associates

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 a year

Pros – There are amazing opportunities to grow as a leader. If you are willing to put in the work, the sky is the limit on how far you can go at Amazon.

Cons – As a manager at a fulfillment center, there is no guarantee of what shift or what days you will be working. The hours can be long at times and during the holiday season even more so.

Advice to Senior Management – Continue to provide opportunities for growth.

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