Amazon.com Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Amazon.com full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Benefits are good and there are lots of opportunities for career development. Casual work environment.

Cons – Work/life balance is nonexistent. Workload is constantly ratcheted up without adequate support. Salaries are just average. Vast, bureaucratic organization includes a lot of careerists acting in nobody's interest but their own - lots of defending turf.

Advice to Senior Management – There is a reason so many Amazon employees burn out after two or three years. Workload demands are simply not realistic. I'm tired of losing co-workers to places like Microsoft, where they can make just as much money and have evenings and weekends to themselves.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Amazon.com full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Seemingly endless headroom for advancment.

Cons – The point policy for IT is crap considering we are expected to show when the warehouse needs us but also held to a set schedule which is contradicting.

Advice to Senior Management – Treat you IT staff with the respect people in that position should be treated with. We are not an average floor worker.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Work with a lot of smart people

Cons – On call duty can be very heavy depends on which team you are in. Totally lose your personal life if you are on call.

No, I would not 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 – Above average pay for entry level warehouse work. The general attitude of Amazon is pretty nice at first. Training is thorough.

Cons – Long hours (10 hour days), tons of mandatory overtime, extremely strict policies, constantly changing procedures while still writing up employees.

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

Pros – pay master, nothing more than that

Cons – Ridiculous work culture. you die in the company.

Advice to Senior Management – Go, Get a life

Former Employee – worked at Amazon.com full-time for more than a year

Pros – Loved the four day work week.

Cons – Not knowing if you are working overtime until a day before.

Advice to Senior Management – None, I wasn't there long enough to work with the new management put into place.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Smart People Everywhere
Lots To Learn
Open Culture

Cons – Work/Life balance
High Work Flow
High Bar
Poor Bonus/Rewards
Overly Frugal

Advice to Senior Management – Working hard- no time, or effort to enable fun!

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 – You can learn many open source project and Linux on the job

Cons – As an engineer, responsibility is not communicated clearly from manager, lots of legacy technology and hard to grow in technical depth.

Advice to Senior Management – They don't listen to advice.

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

Current Employee – been working at Amazon.com full-time for more than a year

Pros – * There is so much of opportunity to grow.
* They let you make mistakes no matter how expensive or how many.
* There is a person from every field to assist you.
* Customer obsessed
* Always want to simplify
* very Frugal teaches you the value of money

Cons – *Job Roles are limited
*Hard to get a promotion
*Salary is not competitive

Advice to Senior Management – Being customer centric is good, but if you have unhappy employees they will leave, please consider improving compensation to be on power with Competitors. And listen to your employees not managers who just want to take up more projects and show how much GMS they are generating.

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 – Competitive salary
Smart people
Nice offices in Clausen
Efforts being made to raise sociability
Employees are encouraged to be proactive and 'go and fix stuff' that can turn into interesting projects. A lot of trust is given to employees

Cons – Work-life balance could do with an overhaul.. some employees seem to work very silly hours and I personally believe management could do more to counteract this - yes it's good that people are dedicated and hard working but I sometimes wonder if people work long because they feel it is expected - is it often for optics..?

Advice to Senior Management – Lead by example, more emphasis on Have Fun please!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend