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Jeff Bezos
“Technical Challenges” /Reviews/Employee-Review-Amazon-com-RVW2650124.htm
Current Employee – New
Pros – End to end ownership, leading a team from both a business and technical perspective, huge future growth potential
Cons – Work life balance, better pay, better training for managers and engineers, less politics as the orgnization evolves, focus on all geographies, transparent annual review process
2013-05-15 07:51 PDT
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“A good place to work” /Reviews/Employee-Review-Amazon-com-RVW2623701.htm
Former Employee
Pros – Very Good, exciting work. Good direction from Bezos
Cons – No work life balance. Too much work
2013-05-06 08:00 PDT
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“A lot to learn, but can get very stressful” /Reviews/Employee-Review-Amazon-com-RVW2607306.htm
Current Software Development Engineer in Hyderābād
Pros – A lot to learn, everyday you learn something new
Always proud of what I deliver, something I make
Cons – Can get very demanding and stressful at times
A little bit of beuracracy can get in at times.
2013-04-30 05:59 PDT
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“Awesome place to work for performance oriented individuals” /Reviews/Employee-Review-Amazon-com-RVW2599449.htm
Current SDE-III in Bangalore
Pros – Very performance oriented, dynamic work culture and cutting edge technologies to work with
Cons – Engineers operations where you have to take turn to support issues 24/7 for a week.
Advice to Senior Management – You are doing awesome. Keep it up
2013-04-27 02:41 PDT
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“Awesome” /Reviews/Employee-Review-Amazon-com-RVW2643168.htm
Current Program Manager in Hyderābād – New
Amazon.com2013-05-13 00:04 PDT
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“Awsm Amazon” /Reviews/Employee-Review-Amazon-com-RVW2600105.htm
Current Fraud Investigator in Hyderābād
Pros – I feel happy to work for Amazon.com. management is employee friendly. It's all about customers and their satisfaction.
Cons – Considers only metrics even though you have a good process knowledge.
Should increase the pay scale. No other cons found.
2013-04-27 10:30 PDT
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“exp at AMAZON” /Reviews/Employee-Review-Amazon-com-RVW2659614.htm
Current Programmer/Analyst in Hyderābād – New
Pros – a lot to learn, ownership, less heirarchy
Cons – too much work, no fun
Advice to Senior Management – management is good
2013-05-18 10:03 PDT
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“High work pressure, No work life balance, No feeling of achievement” /Reviews/Employee-Review-Amazon-com-RVW2619427.htm
Current Product Manager in Bangalore
Pros – Opportunity to work on interesting products and features within the company. There is no dearth of good work opportunities.
Cons – The work pressure in the company is very high - not just for this role, but for all roles. Everyone seems to be overworked. As a result of this, there is no work life balance. This is definitely not the company where people can work for a long period of time. Eventually, everyone burns out and looks for better jobs elsewhere.
Moreover, there is no recognition of employees. Even after delivering stuff, there is hardly any feeling of achievement because it is not attributed to employees and they are not recognized.
Advice to Senior Management – Please create means that can help improve the recognition of employees. Build awards based on team achievements, individual achievements, etc. A small pat on the back goes a long way and sometimes it far surpasses the monetary incentives.
Secondly, please do not create unnecessary work pressures, try to improve work-life balance among employees. A lot of work pressure seems to be unnecessary. Things like yearly planning, their reviews, reporting, etc take up more than usual time. It is important for senior management to have visibility into what is going on, but at some point, trust your employees to take the right decisions rather than controlling everything.
2013-05-04 00:48 PDT
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“Decent Company, although the new management always keeps you on you toe” /Reviews/Employee-Review-Amazon-com-RVW2630233.htm
Current Seller Support Associate in Hyderābād
Pros – Good salary for a fresher, better than current market standards. Dress Code: Wear something
-The job we do at amazon is amazing. Free transport(being the only reason for retention)
-data driven culture (can be manipulated by the management)
-high growth possibility (If you have the right people to back you)
-Recent management has a pathetic approach towards employees, otherwise all good
Cons – Every passing day a new con would arise. The list might be too lengthy
Advice to Senior Management – Please change your approach. Treat us like fellow employees, not slaves.
2013-05-08 05:54 PDT
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“Great company - should watch out for culture retention while expanding internationally” /Reviews/Employee-Review-Amazon-com-RVW2621235.htm
Current Operations
Pros – - Start up environment
- Great autonomy
- Data driven culture
- High growth possibilities
- Management willing to let you experiment and make mistakes
Cons – - Real Amazon culture is in US - which is Awesome. Indian environment often sees fake manifestations to apply the typical political grind under the cover of Amazon leadership principles.
- Yes - your manager can play a big role in your ratings; despite the peer feedback
- Bad appraisal process in general
- Be prepared to stick in the salary range your got with offer for some time. Monetary growth is puny and promotions need blood and sweat.
Advice to Senior Management – As I said above - We should be cognizant if the hired leaders can true carry the great Amazon culture baton successfully.
Please make salary increments practically acceptable.
2013-05-05 01:10 PDT
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