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26 Apr 2009
Former employee
Seattle, WA
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
You're on an H1B Visa and its the only job you can get, or you're right out of college and having a "Big name" on your resume is worth it.
Cons
The primary, fundamental, downside of Amazon is that Senior Managment is both incompetent and arrogant. Amazon is a technology company but they do not have technologists managing people, even at low levels they bring in people who don't know anything about technology to manage engineers. At higher levels they have MBAs making technology decisions. Worse they are arrogant, they don't respect or value employees. They don't treat them well and they have built an HR department who sees its job as keeping employees in line rather than keeping them happy and productive.