Amazon reviews

The culture is terrible, and I personally experienced some of the backstabbing reported by the NYT years later. (The company has not learned.) More broadly, people there are so busy and so low on EQ, it is not a pleasant place to work. The work is mind numbingly abusive. The caliber of projects I was given were on the level of things I did 5 or 10 years ago, and the volume of work was 2-3x what is reasonable if you don't want someone to work until 11pm every night. If you have any level of senior management experience, do not expect to develop and evolve your skill set; expect to be taken advantage of via over-work on basic projects. They don't offer any management training or understand what good mid-level management looks like. Whether you want to develop as a manager or be managed well, odds are stacked against you. I've never seen so many bad managers in one company. Beware the smoke and mirrors. There is an extraordinary PR narrative around the company due to it's stock price and Bezos' wealth. Behind the curtain, the company is not as good at data as it pretends to be, and their "customer obsession" is a thinly veiled metaphor for profit-seeking. (They do not understand or value real customer insights nor do they have they evolved much beyond their 1990's playbook of how personalization should work.) All the innovation is also top-down, often from people who have been at Amazon so long, they are out of touch. It's uninspiring. Myself and countless others I have talked to that are either current of former employees have all noted working for Amazon turns them into someone they don't like. We/They are overworked and/or under-engaged, and they become angry, snap at their spouse/kids, and forget what it is like to work in a state of flow v. a state of fear.

Where should I start? - The employees is like brainwashed of children. They have the so called "leadership" principles and always throw these phrases to each other. I am pretty sure most of the employees don't understand what they mean, but they consider very cool. Last time I supposed this to cool in elementary school. - Managers act kings, who can do anything with their subordinates. They will do. They have problem if you: -- don't speak at the unnecessary company meeting, no matters you cannot add any constructive to the topic. -- raise your voice the task takes more time what they imagined. -- use your brain and not follow the other brainwashed employees (Amazonians? How childish...) - Managers likely: -- use the 121 sessions to discipline you. -- always try to find your weakness and use them in their game. -- not try to develop you. -- encourage you to backstab your colleagues. -- always can explain why they don't have to do something what they should do, and why you have to do something what you shouldn't do. - The quality of developers are bad. Some developers don't know elementary fundamentals of boolean algebra. Senior people don't care about the project, they are interested in only the promotion. - They use internal tools what are way much worse what the industry can offer for developers. - You will ended up fixing bugs what someone placed in the code long time ago. The best thing, a lot of people build features on this bug, so it is very likely you have to revert the change. Amazon is a place where they demand you to be professional, but they are not professionals. My manager missed a lot of deadlines, lied me a couple of time, monitored me with every small thing. When I left the company I had a lot of question about my exit. My manager couldn't answer to that, and gave me the contact e-mail of HR. HR didn't answer me, they reach you only they need something. And they want you to pay your bonus back.