Amazon.com Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Amazon.com full-time for more than a year

Pros – Learning and Development . Jobs satisfaction

Cons – I dont find any other than food facilities

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Amazon.com full-time for more than a year

Pros – - CEO is a visionary
- An experience to learn how the worlds biggest e-commerce company operates
- People working here are very smart and talented
- Agile and fast moving
- Flexible timing

Cons – - Process bureaucracy and jam
- No work life balance
- Favoritism
- Sometimes the "being Frugal" philosophy comes down to being cheap
- Not much of benefits like other big Internet giants
- Not much of quality work in India Development Center
- Employees are treated as "Resource"

Advice to Senior Management – Needs to re align mid level management in India to stop bureaucracy, and focus more on people to encourage more talent.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Amazon.com full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – good culture was tranperent and people were humble and seen mentors encouraging their peers to grow along with them

Cons – couple of the management team members does not tolerate the peers to be more energetic and knowledgeable than them either they are tortured so they they leave the org .

How loyal you are to the org but to get back to Amazon is an Hilarious task as we have to please N number of people.

Advice to Senior Management – Pls do have the same culture as in US and maintain transparency in terms of employee engagement and the process/procedures do not limit them to the pals of the decision makers

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Amazon.com full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – salary provided is at par

Cons – Not much career growth in business side

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Amazon.com as a contractor for less than a year

Pros – Good work environment, lots of up-to-date, lots of perks involved including food coupons and free transport

Cons – Work isn't that challenging, infact it not that good other than it being your first job

Current Employee – been working at Amazon.com full-time for less than a year

Pros – Good Compensation
Opportunity to work on great open source technologies
Leadership Principles (only if you team believes in them)
You can disagree with you manager

Cons – Your manager can not disagree with his manager and hence you have to do whatever your manager's manager asks you to do.
Very poor work life balance.
Working for long hours is not considered to be a stretch but as an expected contribution.
If you are unlucky enough to have a weak manager, you would be eclipsed by the whims of your senior manager.

Advice to Senior Management – Try to understand the feasibility of any initiative before forcing it over your subordinates.
Be practical, not egoistic.
Be open to ideas even if they are against your strongest convictions.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Amazon.com full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – -opportunity for growth
-huge organization
-motivating work atmosphere
-focus on automation

Cons – none so far. Satisfied and happy

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Amazon.com as a contractor for less than a year

Pros – no dress code
good working envinorment

Cons – less pay compared to others

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Amazon.com full-time for more than a year

Pros – + Flexible Office Hours
+ Good career growth
+ Excellent people around

Cons – - No work-life balance
- To many operational activities

Current Employee – been working at Amazon.com full-time for more than a year

Pros – Fun to work. Work's not too monotonous.

Cons – Very data driven even to run a small task

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company