Is Amazon a good place to work for a women. I’m negotiating an offer and it felt like that it may not be a favorable place for women. I also know the team does not have any other women - I specificities asked during interviews. Can anyone please share your experience. This is Amazon Alexa team.
what level are you in MS?
I'm a woman, but at a different org than Alexa. I've worked in two orgs and honestly never felt any different behavior from the teammates and managers just for being a woman (if gender discrimination is what you're concerned about). About the workload, it totally depends on the team. If the team has customer facing services then you can get paged at 2AM. Also forget about the Christmas holiday. Maternity leave is also only 16weeks (if you have been at Amazon for at least a year).
16 weeks sounds really good. I rather an on-site daycare than time off tbh. When I had my child there was a daycare right across the parking lot so it was easy to drop her off and see her during lunch.
Not a good place for a women who may have a family or planning to have one. Heard so many bad experiences and worse is the discrimination is passive aggressive. Most of the moms I knew left amazon for a place that had more empathy.
Some internal FB posts also reflect the issues; where new moms were treated poorly and managed out due to laziness, low performing (compared to pre-pregnancy output) etc. I am not a woman, but look having a baby and growing the career ladder won’t co-exist for most.
Glad your mom didn’t think that way before you were born else you wouldn’t have been here. Glad I don’t work for FB, another bunch of people who lack empathy and are dead inside.
I think it really depends on a team. Request informationals with team members and try to gage their personalities. Also if you have an offer from Amazon you can request going to another team if you don't think it's a good team fit.
Hate this sort of questions. It is just an engineering company, not a US army or MMA fights or anything like that. By default every engineering company treats men/women/LGBT/etc same - it is written in their job description. Equal opportunity employer.
You better off with Microsoft. With our forced diversity quotas you will be on fast track promos and never lacking good bonus. I don't think Amazon works as hard on diversity as us
I'm a woman with a family. It totally depends on the teams. I've worked in two different orgs and I personally have felt like my experiences are comparable to what I've seen at other tech companies. It's isolating since I'm usually the only woman on my team and people occasionally say things that I feel are microaggressions, but I take ownership of both those things and try to improve them because I don't feel they are unique to Amazon. I have several female mentees and I call people on the microaggressions immediately. While it's unfortunate that these things are issues, they aren't Amazon issues.
What is a microagression?
They are statements that seem harmless but actually serve to repress a minority or under represented group. For example, what you said about OP getting promoted quickly and large bonuses at Microsoft can be seen as a microaggression. You meant no harm by it and you likely thought you were being helpful, but you've made it seem like women who do get promotions and large bonuses do so because of their gender... Which actually creates bias against those successful women and diminishes their actual efforts. Now, if you can provide data to actually support that claim, then that's different.
I'm not sure it's a good place for anyone...
I worked in Alexa for about a year. DM me if you would like to discuss the details. Alexa is a large org so if you can share some details, I can provide insights. Goodluck!
Location?
Seattle