3.0
10 Dec 2008
Current employee
Seattle, WA
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
Ability to lead initiatives since management ranks are lean.
Cons
Amazon at its top S-Team level is a good ol boys club - all ivy league, male, and white - and promotions seem to follow that trend. Management actually isn't all that impressive aside from Jeff Bezos and a couple others. People are also so jaded that communication and proactivity are abysmal. Catalysts for growth are few, given worries about sales tax nexus, decline of core hard media goods, and inability to grow well into non-media verticals.