I have been scared to ever work at Amazon from all I read on Blind, but I wonder - I know most Blind people want to work 10-20 hour weeks - that isn’t me. So for people who work their ass off and get good reviews is Amazon an okay place to work? What about non-SWE like Product or Marketing? #amazon
Don't be afraid to join. Every company has good teams - and yes that includes Amazon. I typically work 30 hrs while slacking and when a release is near that'll ramp up to 45. What you want to keep an eye on is the manager, ops load and what tier service you're supporting. Even if you suffer through a couple years you'll gain decent comp with the 2 year bonus and a faang entry on your resume
From your post I can say that your total yoe ≤ 2. Bdw TC or GTFO
My project spans two teams, one in the US and one in the EU. Outside of occasional crunches nobody overworks. I have recently been to the US office, I can tell you absolute majority fucks off after 6. Even the US SDM always tells that overworking is not sustainable and we need to escalate if it gets out of hand. Edit: this is AWS
Agreed. My years there were pretty mixed. Had an amazing team in AWS my first two years and then nothing but abysmal teams on the retail side for the rest of my time. I would say that Amazon culture just tips the odds in favor of bad experiences more than other places is all. Take it, if you hate it or sucks just move on in a year or whatever with Amazon on your resume.
It’s not that bad, especially if you enjoy working. There’s an unlimited amount of things to do, but so long as you have boundaries and communicate to your manager you should be working normal 40h workweeks most of the time. I came from a chill 30-35 hour job into a tier 0 service with pretty high ops, so that was a shock, but you learn to manage the chaos.
Most people on Blind don't expect a 10-20 hour work week.
Think like this - everyone there works 60 hours and still they pip 10-20%. That leads to more politics and bad behavior that can make you fall in that bucket.
Everyone doesn’t work 60 hours a week though. On my team maybe 30% work 60 hours a week and that rotates depending on project deadlines and oncall.
Sure, but that is more like 20% that doesn't work 60 hours. Most others come close to that.
What about non-SWE like Product or Marketing?
WLB is only part of the issue. Amazon's culture will force you to either leave or become toxic to succeed. Stack ranking and PIP makes this inevitable.
It’s not about work it’s about managers , shitty managers even 100hrs is not enough