Amazon Business
Has anyone heard of the troubles of the Amazon business org? The business itself has potential but I’m hearing rumors that the org is a black hole. Any thoughts?
Like a place that is organizationally messed up and doesn’t have clear strategy and people are mostly unhappy
tech survey mighf reflect similar sentiments if that is true.
I can agree with this. Pivot every other week or so, qbr is researched and quarterly ‘insights’ derived days before. Have yet to see roadmap for any product. Currently reacting to deep dives from other teams from multiple channels with ridiculously short deadlines. Team just released their tenants about 2 months ago, been here since beginning of the year. I’m dotted line to the team, not underneath directly. I work for 2 teams and cringe when I get a B2B request
What exactly does this org do?
Is this B2B org?
The tech work has lots of away team work if you end up in many teams. Some teams have good work. SDEs (2-3) & SDMs(6-7) get promoted a lot. 20+ SDE IIIs are there in overall org. It’s a 9-5 or 10-6 job - haven’t worked outside office hours in the last one year. Tickets - check out the individual team - overall it’s low. If you are able to find a tech team with decent stack within AB, good potential to grow else you will leave out of boredom. The pace is much slower than rest of Amazon and has good work life balance. Good for married folks, folks with kids, someone who is burnt out but want to recoup their energy for couple of years!
Thanks for sharing. Amazon business sounds good team to work from your comment. However, I saw couple of really bad review comments for AB. Not sure which one’s right
Amazon business loads of politics. Working 24x7 is not even enough. Some L7 think working Weekends is required. Please stay away from this organization.
Agreed with above comment. It can be a very toxic org primarily driven by some individuals from senior leadership. Attrition seems to be very high.
I heard Amazon business is one of worst teams ! No one wants to join them !
Agree the churn in turnover is tied directly to leadership not being experienced in scaling this type of business - run away
what do you mean by blackhole?