Working at Amazon in Seattle, WA: 227 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Seattle, WA Area

"Not bad. Have lots of challenging problems to solve."

"The work in Amazon is good and Amazon has mature workflow to implement information security. The benefits is also ok but because it's mature, you need to find a chance to make impact."

"I worked as an Area Manager Intern for a fulfillment center in Houston for Amazon. The work environment promoted a great learning experience for all involved, as well as many opportunities to be a part of a great team that drives continuous improvement. They were customer obsessed to their core."

"You'll never work harder than working for Amazon. It will challenge you in both the best, and worst ways. Spent nearly five years at the company and dysfunction and chaos is rampant from the top down."

"I have worked for Amazon for over 5 years and I like the idea behind the company, which is its motto: building the earth's most customer-centric company."

"Amazon is a great place to work, and you have the opportunity to showcase your skills. However, the knowledge repository available to self ramp-up is not sufficient considering the aggressive schedule we have at Amazon. Also, managers need to be more receptive to feedback."

"I've worked for Amazon since 2012. This is the company you need to avoid. They treat people with absolute no respect. Office politics everywhere"

"While compensation is rather good here at Amazon due to an appreciating stock price the workplace culture is especially terrible. This is because the company does not truly value it's employees and due to this the attrition in the first 1-2 years is very high which in turn compounds the difficulty in growing your career with amazon and building equity internally as those with which you would do so often have moved on the another department or more often employer."

"I work specifically for the Prime Now program at Amazon, as a fulfillment associate. It's miserable. They lure you in with promises of an open work-schedule with plenty of shifts, to let you work around any other jobs. In practice, all the shifts go to those with the fastest computers, and this is exacerbated by an internal program in which those who already get lots of shifts get early access and free pick of the shifts before anyone else, ensuring that they'll remain on top of the pile forever. If you get unlucky and can't get any shifts that mesh with your schedule for a while, be prepared to start getting warning emails that are frankly kind of ominous and threatening, saying that if you don't respond and somehow reorganize your schedule and take shifts to meet their quota within a very few days, you'll be automatically fired. I got temporarily terminated despite working enough hours to fill the quota, thanks to the automation, had to fight tooth and claw to get back in, and then because it took me so much time to get reinstated... they almost immediately started emailing me again threatening to terminate me. The warehouses are kind of a catastrophe - poorly organized, outdated jokey "morale builder" posters on the walls, and a strong smell of mold in some places. They're difficult to navigate even WITH the scanner you use to pick or stow, and when standards-of-practice change, they won't work with you to train you on the new methodology, so you just have to turn to your fellow employees for help and bumble through. HR is slow to respond when you need help with something, and are the ones responsible for the threatening and unhelpful warning emails anyway, so it's kind of self-defeating, trying to reach out to them. And last but not least, the CEO is an egotist, buying half the town and turning it into his playground for weird quirky architectural media-coverage magnets. I know they treat the higher-ups better, but if you're offered a fulfillment job... run."

"I worked for Amazon for almost 9 years if you add the 2 contract positions I had prior to be hired as a regular employee for 7 years. They are a great company though the balance of work and personal life is skewed heavily in favor of work."

"Amazon provides an opportunity to work with some of the best and brightest engineers in the world. The environment is massive and there's no such thing as a boring problem. The down sides come mostly from company culture: frugality will limit the equipment you are issued to do your job to an underpowered laptop and a low end monitor. Most managers I have worked with value and respect their employees up until annual review time when all employees are "stack ranked" and forced into bell curves by job class and level."

"Really enjoyed summer at Seattle. Amazon is a great company to work with. I had learned a lot from my mentor and co-workers."

"Good company and good team."

"I found it to be a strong culture. Numbers driven. Not very fun."

"There are a ton of really smart people at Amazon, and they do great things. If they need something that doesn't exist, they build it, turn it into a service and market it."