Amazon Robotics reviews

They have a holiday party in February because they are too busy working from sometime in October to sometime in January for the peak retail season. (They do not understand the words work life balance.) The benefits year starts April 1 which can make it difficult to line it up with the IRS tax year or a partner's benefits year. Everyone is terrified of being ranked too low and being put into a Performance Improvement Plan which is just a slow torture way to fire someone. If you have health problems or personal issues that take any time to deal with you might as well start looking for another job. You get to work with great technology, but you won't be able to tell anybody about it. Nobody will see it except if it is used as part of marketing in the media right before the holiday shopping season. There is no career advancement for technical work, only for support and management. They fired one of the two highest rated software people because he moved to a state where Amazon does not collect sales tax. (The other one quit when the founder quit.)

I left a very secure full-time position for a contract position with the company with the understanding that I was to have remote work flexibility of at least 3 days per week, as my commute one-way exceeded two hours. Although I was in office six days in the first two weeks, after just two weeks the executive of my group decided someone on site full time was required. The job was also not at all what was explained to me in the interview. The recruiters and HR staff are completely out of touch with the reality within the company