Amazon Robotics reviews

Senior management refuses to make any decisions, either changing their minds every few months or just refusing to commit to anything specific. Some projects run on life-support for years and years despite making no progress; other promising ones get cut after a few months because their executive sponsors lost a turf war. Specifications change all the time on the whims from management, often requiring starting from scratch. The company hired very aggressively one year, then realized they overcommitted and instituted a hiring freeze the next. They set up a satellite office in Westborough but never bothered to move any significant projects or teams there, so it's mostly empty. They have literally no space left in the North Reading location, but they have no plans to expand or relocate despite having talked about it for years. They continually talk about bringing more research projects from Amazon to Amazon Robotics, but they refuse to put any staff or funding on them.

-Managers with no management training, old school thought processes and very closed minded -Office is overcrowded, conference rooms have outdated, broken equipment, the office literally smells, no parking -Onsite cafe is gross - have to drive anywhere to get lunch and risk losing your parking spot -No clear advancement path for career, no mentors, no goals -Very hard to get promoted or switch teams -Many teams are understaffed, but managers impede the hiring process for nitpicking every detail about a candidate -Amazon corp is not much is not much better - many managers that shouldn't be managers, antiquated technologies, slow or no processes in place