It's a sweatshop - Software Engineer Amazon Employee Review

-lack of work/life balance - you are expected to work crazy hours and meet arbitrary deadlines set by the management -management lacks respect for the engineers - often they yell at employees -management promotes engineers who are loud and obnoxious -operation support - you have to carry pager 24 hours that sucks the life out of you -lack of tools/support - extremely bad tools support for build, deploy, IDE -poor computer hardware - you have 5 years old machine -dirty bathrooms and carpet - Amazon is known for being cheap and it saves every penny even on cleaning the bathrooms.