Horrible work culture that places perception over everything else - Anonymous employee Amazon Employee Review

- Work culture is heavily diluted from the ideals set forth by Amazon, culture is no longer about placing Customers first (as per Amazon's 1st Leadership Principle of Customer Obsession) as it has now turned into deliver results (revenue) above all else even if it means acting in the disbenefit of customers. - Work culture has a heavy slant towards office politics, no longer can you just focus on doing what you do best but you have to play the office politics game of winning favors from others including your managers and "appearing" to be a "good employee", in short, actual competency comes secondary to the appearance of it - Heavy focus on meeting numbers and revenue, AWS now feels as though its another of those Day 2 companies (e.g Oracle) that has stopped trying to do what is right but rather desperately trying to cling onto the status quo - Managers run their departments like their own personal fiefdoms, little to no accountability seen from their decisions taken (at least from the ground) and an employee's experience can vary drastically from one manager to another which indicates a dilution of organization culture, turning the organization into silos of disparate culture that stems from the managers. - Managers seems to be far more interested in short-term results in order for them to report up and for themselves to look good to higher management, I don't think that they are acting in the interest of the long-term goals of the company or their employees. - Highly transactional environment where an individual isn't appreciated as a person but looked at as just another number on the paper,. - Having said the above, an employee's experience varies greatly depending on your manager, if you happen to get a good and supportive manager, then you'll likely enjoy your work and being in AWS but if you don't then you'll hate it, which is why there is such high turn-over and super short tenure in certain departments over another. - Lack of co-operation between the different departments within the organization as all of them have very different KPIs and agendas that doesn't necessarily tie into a unified goal, hence you find departments actively pushing back when you're seeking assistance in something that doesn't contribute to their KPI. - Too much of a shout-out, kudos and rara-ing culture, its all about visibility and self-promotion within the organization and its honestly nauseating.