Y’all warning people about Amazon’s sweatshop culture, bull crap leadership talks from Bezos (let’s give him some credit for being a business genius though), and all PIPs and backstabbing shit. So why are you still with Amazon? Why are y’all newbies entering Amazon in the past few years? Other than salary and stock, what’s keeping you there? Has your technical skill grown?
I think Amazon stock has high growth ( diversity of Business) potential than Google...unless someone tells me that's already factored into the stock price
I have been very happy with my one year tenure so far
What makes yours experience positive compared to some of your other colleagues’? If you were to guess.
Can't tell about others but I have been very happy about the challenges and new learning opportunities, work life balance, impact of my work and the reach to millions of users
Every time an amazon recruiter contacts me, my heart fills with joy to tell them to go to hell!
There are great opportunities to learn. Amazon usually doesnt let you get complacent and left behind in tech.
it’s easier to get into than some places, harder than most; it pays better than most but not the best, loves silver-handcuffing people Amazon, realistically speaking, is a logistics company. it’s trying to optimize out everything, including its workforce. some people like that they’ve found whatever sweetspot on the talent-cost curve they need to succeed, just enough money and learning opportunities to lure people, and a quick weeding mechanism to keep their logistics optimization algo running smoothly
also if you really like Seattle, they kinda own the place
I’ve been at a bunch of big tech companies. At Amazon for 9 years now. It’s actually been great. Only about 5% of people get managed out per year - so you are seeing a lot of that subset here on Blind. A bunch of the senior tech leaders are fucking brilliant, not just Jeff. You can learn a shit ton here and are given a lot of opportunity to take ownership if you are the type.
Among faang, Amazon is relatively easy to get into, or so I think. And it's expanding, which increases the chances further. From there, the chances of making a switch to better companies increases due to increased interview calls. Plus it pays decent.
I love working at Amazon. I get a ton of freedom, great opportunities, competent management (I'm more talking about the L7/8s and above) and interesting projects. I would not take blind as representative of the experience for most, it's just a troll factory
It’s easier to get in. There will be an exodus if stock growth flattens for a few years.