Why is Amazon so successful?
You don't see a post here about comparing companies without people complaining about Amazon's culture, pay, benefits, etc. I also did not have a pleasant experience interviewing with them. I am wondering now, what makes Amazon so successful? What makes you like working at Amazon?
I had a better experience interviewing at Amazon than I did at Google
I have not interviewed with Google yet, but my Amazon interview experience was far better than at Microsoft and Bloomberg LP.
Not implying it's always better or worse :). But generally it depends on who's interviewing you and not the company itself. Plenty of unpleasant engineers work in every company. Hopefully you'll have a good experience at Google as well
A few Managers are a holes 🕳
I'm on a good team and I make a fuck ton of money, I'm literally taking home twice as much money as my last job.
Good for you pal, where did you work before that?
What's your TC?
I work a lot less at Amazon than at Google. I think it all depends on your manager tbh. There are fair shares of toxicity anywhere.
People keep good things to themselves and spit the bad ones easily out to the world.
They coerce the competition into joining or failure.
Competition. SDE2 covering from yoe2 to yoe15. This is the real evil but helps Amazon delivering result quickly.
I'm sure things are great on AWS side, that seems to be creating big dividends and financial cushion for them. But honestly on retail side it feels like the experience quality is degrading by the day, and success is coming from cutting corners and being ruthless. Sometimes I literally cannot find anything that isn't poorly QC'd Chinese dropshipped crap from a company that won't exist in six months accompanied by several thousand fake reviews. I tried buying a hand steamer recently, got sick of feeding urls into Fakespot and repeatedly getting Fs, and just paid $20 more for one at Costco. Maybe that race to the bottom is great for revenue growth, but it's increasingly reaching a point where I don't bother searching for it on Amazon unless I know very specifically which brand and model I want.
So true
As much as people love to complain, it mostly people who are on bad teams, bitter about PIP or just weren't a good culture fit. Not that Amazon is perfect. There are plenty of cultural issues, but I enjoy my job and my team. And unless AWS suddenly implodes, this experience will help me vastly if I ever want to shift outside the company.