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

"You can learn stuff fast and remain cutting edge."

"I've worked here twice. It's an intense environment, but gives you a lot of ownership of your projects. My main complaint would be that you are treated like a number, I saw far too many people lose their jobs without advance notice as soon as the company decides to cut costs."

"Great company to work with as an independent contractor."

"The TRMS department at Amazon is not a place I have enjoyed or would recommend working at. There is little room for career advancement and the micromanagement is extreme."

"I have only worked for Amazon for short while. However, I have already experienced the good and the bad reputation of the company. There are lots of very smart people who work there, many of them being very ambitious. I think ambition may get the better of some of the employees as they sometimes resort to making themselves look better by making others look worse. Level of experience overall is quite low because of the high turnover."

"I worked for amazon as a risk investigator for 4 months, it was a wonderful experience as i got to learn how amazon tries to keep its activity so secure and safe. I saw the possible happenings of a credit card fraud and i was in MRI which stands for merchant risk investigations.Which prevents the seller from doing a fraud to the customers."

"The people were nice to work with, but I was grossly underpaid for the work I was doing, I found my manager difficult to approach, and because everyone else on my team was as green as I was it was difficult to get help. Lastly I was cut from my contract along with every other contractor on my team with only a weeks warning, which I might add was less than I was required to give them in the case that I wanted to leave."

"Amazon has strong vision for future consumer business. Employees at Amazon are very competitive and may be tough for new mom due to lack of work-life balance. If you are willing to spend many hours, you will be successful."

"Great learning experience."

"Good experience. Got to learn a lot! Manager was not good."

"I've worked with Amazon for over 2.5 years, and overall the company is a wonderful company to work for. I have only two negative things to say: work/life balance is extremely poor compared to other companies I've worked for, and compensation is much less than equivalent roles I've had in other companies."

"A good place to start and grow. Well organized as you would expect. Technology culture for software developers - there are weekly presentations, discussions, mailing lists, etc. Politics exist as in any office."

"Worked for Amazon for 2 years. Found that hardly anything in the Digital Products software org is planned. Everything is always a fire.Great that you get ownership over your own areas, but at the same time there are not enough people, and there are well embedded old-timers that are hard stuck to make change.Amazon only has about 2% of their employees in top IC roles, not a well balanced curve so you compete with everyone as the level band is also very wide. You need a number of executive level people in different disciplines to champion your promotion (not feedback from your peers or direct managers)."

"This is a great place to work, but it can be difficult to move up."

"I have worked with Amazon as a Tier One Support Engineer and provided support to internal teams, as well as, event management and event mitigation of brand impacting events. It was an awesome work environment, with little stress involved. However, there was little to no challenge involved, so some days just dragged on. Overall, I highly recommend Amazon as an employer as the career growth opportunities are limited only by your own ambition."