Amazon reviews

Company has almost zero programs for talent or management development. Amazon will sell the company as a start-up but they only mean this by the number of hours you will work (at least 60 each week). There is no effort given to any sort of work/life balance and management is very dismissive of this. If you complain, you are not Amazonian. Management will require an obscene amount of reporting and spend ungodly amounts of time to wordsmith every word in all your documents. Everything you do must have a metric wrapped around it. If you cannot report on it then why bother doing it? Seems that there is no real risk taking here anymore with new business ideas being copied from other businesses. People are randomly fired, moved, or promoted and no one is notified. Highly secretive management leads to distrust of superiors.

I also had the opportunity to work with some of the meanest, most selfish, most back stabbing individuals in my life. Lots of stress and turnover. I am putting the following on the cons (for some people it may be a pro) - Amazon is a high performance, high energy company. This means lots of long hours; once you are not performing you will be out the door in 3-4 months no questions asked. This applies to new hires as well as "tenured" employees. I am also putting this in the cons (for some people it may be a pro) - as you stay in the job and as you are performing, your job will get progressively harder and harder and your responsibilities will progressively increase. But you not get any pay increase or bonus for years to come.