Amazon reviews

What's it like to be a delivery driver for Amazon? I get that question a lot and I always tend to sugarcoat the answer, but not anymore. This is what it's like to deliver for Amazon.... you start the day by loading 250 to around 350 packages which is any where between 150 to more than 200 stop. A stop can be anywhere from 1 to 5 different houses. Packages can weigh up to 50 pounds and majority of the time packages are not labeled heavy so there goes your back when your day starts. Packages a majority of the time come to us drivers already damages. You have no time for a lunch break (but you have to write down that you took one) and if your lucky you might get 1 of your 15 minute breaks. You have to choose whether or not you want to stay hydrated and choose between going and finding the closest bathroom and being called by dispatch to see why you are leaving your area or do what the guys do and pee in a bottle in the van. When an area is not accessible due to remodeling or anything and you let Amazon know and they forget they blame you for their mistakes instead of owning up to it. You get in trouble if the business is closed when you get there, or if the customer needs to sign for the packages but they arent home. You get in trouble for every package you have to bring back even if it's not your fault. Amazon asks you to give your feed back on everything to how they handle things, the routes, and the navigation system. Beware of giving feed back, they don't fix anything, they take routes anyway, maKe the navigation worse, and will some how find something to blame you for to give you a tier 1 infraction which will cost you your job. So next time you want to blame the driver for an issue with your package not being on time or damages. Or that we are pissed off or cranky, please remember that we try our hardest to get it to you, we are hungry, have to pee, and out of the 200 plus people we deliver to no more then 5 have told us "Thank you".

1. No work-life balance - I've worked 12+ hours each day in Amazon. There were a couple of months that I even worked for 14-16 hours a day + weekends. 2. No growth opportunities. 3. Poor benefits compared to other top tier companies. 4. Managers aren’t in Amazon are not to be trusted – Your manager will tell you anything to make you join his team and make you work harder. But from my experience managers in Amazon aren’t on your side. For example: During my 1.5 years in Amazon I had 5 managers (yes, 5!). The first manager was the one that recruited me. Back then Amazon gave me an SDE 2 offer although I was a senior in some other leading company. That manager together with his director, told me not to worry. They told me that Amazon give sde 2 to almost everyone, but then they promote senior people after 6-12 months. Shortly after I joined Amazon I discovered that there was no truth in these claims (even if you ranked high as I did there was absolutely no chance for that to happen). In fact, 3 months after I joined my first manager already left so that promise faded into the air. 5. Unbelievable amount of politics - As I described managers in Amazon aren’t to be trusted. They are all about slaving their employees so they can move up the ladder faster. After a year in Amazon I came to my 5 (and last manager) and asked him about the promised promotion. My last manager told me that in Amazon, if you want to get promoted, you need to “play the politics”. You need to find ~6 engineers to support you. Later on the same manager told me in one of our 1-1s that in order to get his support for my promotion, I need to kill one of my side project and give it to him so he can present it as his own initiative. There is also a lot of politics on the peers level (which I won't describe here). 6. Lack of diversity – yes, unfortunately that also exist in Amazon. My division had a clear preference for engineers that came from a certain country. All of the managers and senior engineers in our division came from that country. I personally didn’t think it’s a coincidence. 7. Pay is only reasonable if you ignore the fact that you work 12+ hours a day. In fact, strong engineers can find way better offers at every other leading company pretty much.