Amazon Employee Reviews for Anonymous Employee

"Amazon is a software, web-development company. The practices and culture fit well for software, web-development. Other technologies are a misfit - Computer Vision, Image Processing or Machine Learning. Work life balance sucks!"

"Amazon is a highly competitive atmosphere where no one seems to know what they're competing for. There is no collective goal that everyone is working toward. Teams seems to work in silo with no regard for the impact on tangential teams. Compensation is terrible, and seems that all the smart people end up leaving, and only the ones willing to stay well past the point of what's rational are promoted."

"Most of the time I worked remote with AMZN, but since I worked for the first 3-6 months in AMZN data center (unlike corp env.) it was SO different, and it was new to me. But slowly I got adjusted."

"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."

"I interned with Amazon over the summer. It was a great experience."

"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."

"It's been a mixed experience, there are lots of good and bads, as all companies. The cons mainly are around the work life balance and hence appreciation for extra efforts that you put. Amazon lacks that value system."