Amazon.com Reviews

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

Pros – Pros: decent pay, good people, good exercise. You get some employee benefits and learn how Amazon works from the inside.

Cons – You don't really get a break. Your feet hurt after awhile, your lunch break is short and the shifts are very long. Pretty taxing. Can be mind numbingly boring at times.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – End to end ownership, leading a team from both a business and technical perspective, huge future growth potential

Cons – Work life balance, better pay, better training for managers and engineers, less politics as the orgnization evolves, focus on all geographies, transparent annual review process

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 – Good working environment with best benefits

Cons – Stress but manageable, management tough

Advice to Senior Management – think big thing for all employees

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

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 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

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

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