Amazon
People say that your experience at Amazon varies greatly by the team you are on. Can anyone share Amazon product teams that are good and ones that should be avoided?
Sure, most EC2 teams are solid. Twitch-affiliated teams under Amazon are also solid. I have some friends on some infrastructure teams that love their work. Some guys transferred off my team to ML/AI work in AWS and they love their stuff.
Prime Now is one of the best Amazon orgs. It's known for its work/life balance, great morale and top tier tech.
Troll!
For real?
Avoid AmazonBusiness. An engineer jumped off the building because of the toxic management.
Isn’t that too old news now
No, same toxic environment. You just don’t see it in the news.
Don’t join amazon if you want a peace life
I am chilling on my couch, trees green, flowers in bloom, deers grazing, birds chirping, peacefully overlooking the water of pleasant bay down the hill. I disagree with you. Shit... my Roomba just started. There went my peace. Remember the OP is asking specifically about this. If your team sucks then give that advice. Generalizing definitely doesn’t work at Amazon. I am super content.
I gave my opinion... you can give yours
Amzon work life balance is terrible. More over amazon is trying to scam people with part time engineer. Basically same work with half the pay. Please beware of this part time job and work from home. The work is always 18 hours. F*** they don’t let me sleep.
See my above post about peace. I work 40-45 and any overage on 40 is my choice. Sounds like you need to fix your situation, maybe a talk with your boss? HR?
My boss is useless peace of shit. He is on a PIP plan. he is robo and my hr business partner always on vacation has no time for employee. May be I need to write to JEFF to say how ineffective these people are at Amazon. May be it is time for New York Times article 2.
Devices / firetv is really good.
I got an offer to join Device/FireTV team in Seattle. Is it still good? WLB?
Yup I know I have a very good match with the background needed for devices supply chain roles but the current manager will not let me move ..its more of squeezing out than anything at this time
I agree, but would emphasize that variance as a whole is *low*. Most teams are just fine, some are stellar, and a few are bad, but on average your team will be pleasantly normal
I had a great experience in digital (Fire/Kindle specifically) for my first couple of years in 2012-2013. After Jeff Kunins came over from Skype to run Kindle, he flipped the org from a bottom-up group (lots of hackathons, great customer-obsession), to a very top-down management style focused on enhancing the bottom line. That team did and does deliver some amazing features, but the internal politics are highly toxic, and many people and features were collateral damage along the way. I bailed after my 4 year stock payoff, and it turns out I was part of a pretty big staff turnover, including the director and several of the most senior TPMs and engineering managers. People I know who are still in the group seem pretty happy, but it was a runaway train of toxicity when I left.
I was on the content management system for the main retail website for a year and it was terrible. Nothing but on-call tickets and getting paged. The next year I was on an AWS Service that was really high in the stack and it was awesome. Really easy on-call and tons of greenfield coding.