4.0
3 Jan 2020
Current employee, more than 5 years
Seattle, WA
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
Amazon is a fast-moving, big-thinking organization that allows for innovation and initiative. There are no two-way doors here. Opportunities to do creative work on a very big scale abound. It's like being in a PhD program and getting paid for it. As well, mechanisms are built into the processes to continuously reinforce the leadership principles AMZN is built on.
Cons
Amazon is not for everyone. It is demanding and exacting, data-driven and truly customer obsessed. It can feel like swimming upstream in a flooded river. That is why you must love your work as a craft. If you love your work, you will thrive. If your prime motivation is something else, you will burn out.