Recently got an offer from Lab126, high base high sign on. However all these horror stories from Glassdoor and quora scares the hell out of me on how people think about amazon and Lab as a whole. Seems to me as a sweatshop with 0work life balance and no growth. Is that really true or how much variance will my mileage vary per each organization? Since this is a first line manager job can I influence the team and culture to be a better work environment / place? Thanks
Is it really high enough for the toxicity you have to deal with every day? It's the company culture that employees have little value. When your VP/director flushes shit downwards, there's just so much you can do for your team.
Thanks for the honest feedback. During interview Director was really trying to get me and saying those lucrative speech as freedom for the team and growth etc. I found that to be not super genuine at all. However the offer package seems to be in part of 15% increase from my current package.
Seriously people even consider Amazon for 15% increase? I have seen Amazon HM saying whatever lies to get people in, opportunities/growth etc. And don't forget constant reorgs you probably have little to no influence on as first line manager.
You will not be treated like a person and you will deal with all the shit that runs downhill and you will get thrown under a bus when it goes side ways.
I’ve had a fantastic experience at amazon, though I have heard some stories about lab126
There are bad teams, and there are great teams. Just like any other large company. My experience has been awesome.
Be careful, lab126 had some unexplained layoffs last year, then hired a bunch again right after. Not sure if this went on the news.
Depends 100% on your team and manager. My time here has been reasonably tame but it is definitely not a rest and vest kind of place. I had all the same doubts and just decided to go for it and it worked out ok. I consider myself a hard worker but definitely not a type-A workaholic.
Lab126 has a good bit of horror stories. What I heard was they have insufficient resources to do the job assigned but despite missing and failing, they achieve more per resource than say, Apple or Google Nest. That sounds to me like a sweat shop.
I'll repeat what Jeff said as a response to the few years ago new York article, if people are not generally happy they can just leave? Amazon has so many success stories by all measures and many many people are happy and staying ther . This probably tells you something. Yes , there are other unhappy or burned ppl too either due to not good orgs or high ops load. But this is probably the same in every company. As usual you only hear those complainers because others are just getting the work done.
I’ve had a great experience here. Really. And I worked at MS and startups and other companies before. For a long time amazon employees were not allowed to post on networks like Glassdoor so the only thing you got was disgruntled ex-employees. That changed like a year or so ago.
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