1. Only 6 public holidays per year.
2. Only 2 sick days.
3. Parking is subsidized ($160 per month), but not free, in a crowded downtown Seattle.
4. Zero paternity leave.
5. Sometimes you have to pay for your own food in team gatherings (feels silly when the business is making millions of dollars, and you wonder whether you have anything to do with it).
6. Promotion is soft-skill based, not engineering-based (actually most companies are the same way).
7. Zero cash bonus, only stock bonus which you receive zero after the first year of joining.
8. Benefits not comparable to top-tier companies (but still better than small companies).
9. Nature of work is largely operations-based with some new development.
10. Performance and long hours (and political skills) are strongly correlated.
11. Tight deadlines and stressful work environment (depends on team).
12. Mediocre computer hardware (maybe average, but at least usable).
13. Every service you deploy will contain a lot (hundreds to over a thousand) of rubbish packages.
14. Slow builds.
15. Painful deployment processes.
16. Grim long-term job prospects (maybe not specific to Amazon, but hard to move past the mid level).
17. I think they treat anyone as being replaceable, just a tool that comes and goes (depends on your manager).
18. Crowded offices (seems like most companies are the same now).
19. Crowded elevators.
20. You have to debate almost everything all the time (the American way).
21. Unsubsidized cafeterias (what the ???).
22. Crowded cafeterias (not all are crowded).
23. Poor support for IDEs (both eclipse and intellij).
24. Poor dev environment (redhat on virtualbox on ubuntu on your desktop, get it?).
25. Security hell (maybe overly-emphasized).
26. Almost zero room for creativity (you are a robot, remember?).
27. Did you think we get an employee discount shopping on Amazon? Think again. The 10% employee discount code could not be applied to virtually anything I buy on amazon.com.
28. Did you think that Amazon employees automatically get free Amazon Prime membership??
Source:https://www.quora.com/Why-isnt-working-at-Amazon-considered-to-be-as-prestigious-as-working-in-Facebook-Google-Apple
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2. Wtf
3. Normal
4. Wtf
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You should also pretty much ignore anybody who uses the "good teams aren't like this" bullshit to counter, because they almost certainly haven't been around long enough to see how quickly and easily that will disappear (just one re-org can do it--and there are 1-2 chances per year for that to happen).
Obviously we (now) have paternity leave.
RE Amazon discounts, while it would be awesome to have a discount on everything on the website, that would mean the company covers the difference for literally thousands of third party sellers who make up so much of the products on the site or those sellers volunteer to give special treatment to Amazon employees. Doesn’t sound like a sustainable thing to me given the size of the company and the problems with implementing such a thing for hundreds of thousands of workers.
Some of the other stuff I’m not gonna argue with because YMMV. This is a huge company, even within orgs or departments there are discrepancies. You have to find your “place” here.
Most of the list of just wrong and it seems tiresome to argue with that much wrong information
Some you could say are subjective but I don't really agree and OP seems to be angry and lying.
Doesn’t mean it can’t be better though. SurveyMonkey has something like 3M leave for new parents.
The thing is that at Amazon, except for range of pay, all workers, from warehouse (if blue badge) to director or even VP level have the same perks.
The kind of perks other tech giants give to their white collar employees would be very expensive for Amazon to give to everyone, blue and white collar alike.
And if you think Amazon builds are slow, you never worked at Google...
Just the most grievous: 6 is false. Sometimes I even think some L4s are promoted to L5 just because of code, which I think is not what's expected. 7 there is cash bonus on your first two years only, but you receive stock refreshers every time your current salary + vests are below your TC target.