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

"Amazon continues to expand rapidly and continues to innovate in the online retail space. Overall I am very pleased with my professional experience being at Amazon. I do caution that it can be difficult to manage a work life balance depending on the level of responsibility in your role."

"Work satisfaction greatly depends on what team you end up in and what management structure is controlling it. If your team is collaborating with staff in India, you'll be expected to attend odd hour phone meetings. Altogether not very much emphasis is put on work-life balance. On the other hand, it can be great career maker to work and have worked for this company. People from all over the world come to work for Amazon, and it's fun to meet them in the common kitchen areas."

"Do not enjoy working at Amazon. "Work hard, have fun, make history", where the latter 2 are works in progress."

"I've worked here for 2 years and while the technology is great, the management is subpar. Very little room to grow and no direction from management makes it a very frustrating place to work. On the plus side, your co-workers will probably be the smartest people you've ever worked with. It's a great job but can burn you out really fast."

"The organization as a whole is doing okay. The problem lies in that there wasn't a clear mission for the team I was on. This led to a lot of confusion and only by going over my boss's head did I get timely information. There's a "just get it done" mentality - it works sometimes - but not when you're giving conflicting instructions and amorphous goals."

"I did an internship at Amazon during the Fall of 2013 (end of August to late December). My overall experience at Amazon is positive. I was able to learn a lot about myself and where and how I can improve in the future. However the one thing I did not like was the work itself and the support I received during my internship. During my 4 months there, I was plagued with constantly changing requirements. I had almost no support which made completing my job difficult."

"I've been working at Amazon for almost 1 year. Learning experience is great, is very fast pace and work/life balance is not that good. On call rotations are very stressful."

"I have worked for Amazon since 2010. While they are the top online retailer in the world and have provided me much valuable experience, I think that they are still using an archaic performance review system that requires leaders to map compensation to a curve. And the workspace is extremely small considering my job level and experience. Amazon is extremely frugal especially considering their success."

"Good company and learning."

"The middle layer of management, from SDM to Director, has a lot of power to do whatever they wish. How you are treated at Amazon depends almost entirely on your manager. With a good manager, you'll do well. With a rotten manager, and there are a lot of them, you'll do poorly. This includes such things as work-life balance, compensation, and advancement.Basic project management guidelines, best practices, and tenets are routinely violated. The lessons of The Mythical Man-Month are lost."

"Extremely good workplace if you get into good team!"

"Great company, lots of room for growth."

"In the year I have been with amazon, I have experienced too much territorialism. Responsible parties are slow to onboard outside engineers, even within the same business group. This makes self determination and ownership challenging at best, impossible at worst. I was asked to push untested and even incomplete work for the sake of making a stakeholder look good. Too much self interest in the.management team."