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

"Amazon is a shark tank. If you have a great deal of confidence in yourself AND are willing to make you work the #1 thing in your life, this is a fantastic place to be if you can get in. If you are not able to check both of those boxes, the experience will likely be miserable and/or short-lived."

"Amazon is a great place to build fundamental product management skills. The scope of opportunity varies significantly from team to team. Because of the company's size and complexity, some projects can be slow-moving and drawn out. Leadership changes occur frequently and many teams lack specific direction."

"Amazon is a nice place to start your career."

What do you like about working at Amazon?

"I like the brand name. I like the leadership principles and work ownership where we are free to do anything; just make sure things get done."

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

"Whether you are a software engineer, manager, or a UI developer, they focus a lot on data structures."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"There are a lot of meetings, seriously, a lot. The management should cut that down a bit."

"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."

"Amazon is a great organization, and their EDI continues to grow."

What do you like about working at Amazon?

"The work is exactly what I thrive on. The peers within my group are excellent, diverse and professional."

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

"Interviewing is a fairly lengthy process. Be prepared for interviewing with people directly in your group, adjacent to your group, and a few who are unrelated to your group."

What don't you like about working at Amazon?

"Many managers are just getting started and have room to grow their management of employees."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Value employee feedback. When employees express a concern, heed it rather than work against the employee."

"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."

What do you like about working at Amazon?

"I like the challenge, insight, data analysis, business intelligence, estimation, inference, data mining, machine learning, and econometrics."

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

"Study Amazon leadership principles, and structure your interview answers around them."

What don't you like about working at Amazon?

"There is too little time to work on everything I am expected to do - work for three, whereas some do not work for one."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Micromanage less, optimize workload better, prioritize, have more respect, and be more flexible."

What do you like about working at Amazon?

"I like the big problems and smart people. It's challenging, and it never stops."

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

"Know your stuff, and don't be afraid to just try something."

What don't you like about working at Amazon?

"It's not a generous company; we lack perks, and they don't send us to neat conferences."

"A lot of companies will say they are fast-paced, but that is a truly accurate assessment of Amazon. You will be expected to turn around a staggering amount of work in a short amount of time. This makes for a poor work-life balance environment."

What do you like about working at Amazon?

"There are many things that I really enjoy about Amazon, namely, the fact that you get to work around some of the most intelligent people, due to our high hiring bar. I also love the fast-paced environment."

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

"The successful candidates will be able to articulate their ability to think big, deep dive, and deal with ambiguity during their interview."

What don't you like about working at Amazon?

"Believe it or not, the technology is lacking around our tools. Additionally, my situation of being stuck in a role that I am not passionate about for rotation/exposure purposes without the ability to reassess my situation is a letdown for me."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Things are fast-paced at Amazon. Sometimes doing things quickly just for the sake of doing them quickly does more harm than good."

"Not a bad place, really."

"it's such a different place than when I started, but it's growing in momentum for a younger generation"

"Learn a ton but with lot of politics at senior level"