Amazon Employee Job Reviews in the United States

What do you like about working at Amazon?

"We have a lot of data to play with, and we are working on cool things for customers."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Run like hell. If you get hired you will be treated like dirt."

What don't you like about working at Amazon?

"The management HATES its employees and has no regard or respect for anything but the money they are making. It is a BLAME culture."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Seriously, what a pack of self-absorbed jerks. There's no fixing sociopathic personality disorders."

"Amazon Mortgage went out of business."

What do you like about working at Amazon?

"I like the environment, that I can bring my dog to the office, and the boundarylessness. Expect the unexpected."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be yourself, be smart, and be prepared for an amazing experience."

What don't you like about working at Amazon?

"I have no real complaints at this time. There are not enough hours in a day."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Management should continue doing what they are doing! It works. Thank you."

What do you like about working at Amazon?

"I like the good location, good compensation, and decent working conditions; this is about it."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Learn about Amazon core values - they are essential for passing interview loop. The professional part of the SDE interview can be very aggressive and concentrated on your ability to write real code. The interviewer will expect you to deliver correct code snippet for the given task."

What don't you like about working at Amazon?

"This position is a wrong place for me as a software developer. Work is very ad-hoc and poorly organized, without clear chain of command. There's a lot of support and little new development, and no growth perspective."

What do you like about working at Amazon?

"Getting regular stock instead of options was nice. It was fairly family-friendly."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Make sure you can afford to live in Seattle before moving there."

What don't you like about working at Amazon?

"The way their whole software operation is set up is a joke. The fact that they have no central architecture makes each team its own little mess to deal with."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Try focusing more on your employees and a little less on your customers. If you keep the customers happy and piss off the employees, you won't have any employees left."

"My dog loved it too."

"Overall, I like where I am but am looking for a permanent position."

"Systems and tools are holding Amazon back from truly being an ideal workplace."

"I have tremendous respect for Jeff Bezos; Seattle was not for me and I missed California."

"Superbly awesome and wonderfully fulfilling."