Amazon Reviews

- Not industry standard remuneration, below average remuneration - Stock is heavily used to compensate the base salary, which in many cases just gets lost if you leave the company in first 2 years. Most of the stock are vested between year 2 and 4. - High pressure work environment and highly political work environment - Micro management to the max - Lots of new managers only focused in progressing their own career and sacrificing the lower level staffs for their own gains. - Metrics, metrics, metrics and more metrics, if metrics are not met, good bye in annual review period. - If you are not in good books with your manager, your career is over. Manager will stop you from progressing anywhere despite your genuine talent. - Hiring manager always listens to the employee's current manager. Manager's mafia style ruling is highly evident. - Hellish place for Seasoned IT pros as they will be treated as school kids similar to new graduates who all work on the same floor. Do the same job and also get almost same pay. - Extreme focus on KPIs and metrics that are beyond engineer's control (like Customer ratings) - Short visioned managers sabotaging engineer's life and career. - Extreme favoritism, the same engineers who is close to manager and manager's favorite gets opportunities everywhere, flying across the globe and doing whatever they want to do. Hence misuse of corporate funds.

Extremely hierarchical - what matters is meeting deliverables and pleasing the higher ups. No work/life balance. Meetings scheduled outside work hours are quite normal; deadline pressure is significant and you'll be expected to sacrifice your personal life to meet them regardless how stupid the original estimates. On-calls can be hell. Depending on your role it may mean doing some occasional quiet shifts one every few months or you may find yourself in a role where you are almost always on-call. Its hell when can't be away from the laptop and find yourself being paged out of bed at 3am to handle problems or join conference calls. Frugality is considered to be a corporate value - it means they're cheapskates. The Amazon values are repeated in cult-like fashion as though they are deep insights rather than the banal corporate drivel they are.