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Amazon Robotics reviews

3.5

58% would recommend to a friend

(511 total reviews)

60% positive business outlook

Amazon Robotics has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 511 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Amazon Robotics employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufactura industry (3.5 stars).

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511 reviews
5.0
Jul 18, 2014

Best Company I've Worked At!

Anonymous employee
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Pros

A culture of really smart people that take ownership and quickly pull together to break through challenges and innovate at a healthy/incredible pace. I've worked at several companies prior to Kiva and none compare; the people have a passion for collaborating and challenging (no egos) each other to reach the optimal solution. Beyond the great culture, working in a space that is disrupting old fulfillment technologies with robotics is pretty cool and fascinating!

Cons

I wish I had found this job sooner

5.0
Jul 16, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Kiva is building a very exciting product, and the Engineering teams are growing really fast. Working here gives you the opportunity to work with really smart people. Compensation is really good, if you can get over the balance of base pay with stock.

Cons

Work-life balance is a challenge here, from rotating in to support roles to committing to reasonable scope and timeframes.

5.0
Jun 25, 2014
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Pros

Kiva Systems has the best blend of 1) Great technology- who else gets to build and deploy thousands of autonomous robots each year 2) Awesome people- some of the brightest people work here across Software, Performance, Manufacturing, Hardware, Design, Support, Deployment etc. and it's still small enough and under one roof so you get exposure to many different things. 3) Inspiring leaders/ managers- I've worked for two of the best managers in my career here at Kiva. It's a large company, but my experience has been top notch. Finally, the company is growing so quickly (headcount has more than doubled in the 3+ years I have been here) so there is always opportunity to grow. And now that we are an Amazon company, there are opportunities in the broader Amazon network.

Cons

We are growing fast, and the technology is evolving so quickly, this is not a 9-5 job. There is just so much to do that it's hard stop working at the end of the day. In some ways, I feel like Ford Motor back in the day thinking about all the cool features they could add to cars, and as Jeff Bezos says, it's still Day 1. Our technology also goes into warehouses which operate 7 days a week, so we have to have production ready technology. We are building out a lot of engineering and system support teams, so this will only get better, but we are not a R&D company making robots for trade shows. It also speaks to how advanced this company is with respect to robots being used for industrial applications.

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