Could you please share your positive experience?
The general idea I get on reading blind posts here about Amazon is really poor. Almost nobody seems to be happy with the team and people around, and the frugality in terms of perks. Is the attrition rate in the first year really 94%?
Did you have offers from other companies that you rejected for Amazon?
Also, I see on Glassdoor that the rating for East Palo Alto office is higher than the other offices. Any truth to it, or just lesser data?
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With that said, you are correct in that amazon is very "frupid" (so frugal it's stupid). This affects the entire company. And is something that is quite annoying. Some key examples: no free food or drinks, terrible 401(k) matching, you have to pay to park in the building.
My advice, if you're considering amazon, is to tough it out on the first team you get placed on. Do your research on good teams to join, and switch soon after. Good luck!
I recommend, regardless of the company, start working at the headquarters location until you're ramped up and then internal transfer to one of the branch locations if you're interested.
Wrt internal transfer, the process is similar to if you were applying externally. We have an internal "jobfinder" tool that lists all the positions managers are trying to fill for the entire company, similar to the external tool. You just apply for a transfer like you were applying for a job.
I love it here because the scope and ownership we offer is unmatched at comparable levels at most other top companies.
In general, we love faster than most other big companies and most of our projects scale to millions of users.
Our culture can be tough to keep up, but we don’t have a bloated layer of ‘rest and vest’ peers who block projects due to inaction, at least compared to other big companies.
Our products are diverse enough that you can literally work on just about anything and have many different transformative experiences all within one company (ie AWS to Alexa to Go).
Finally, our comp philosophy is frustrating to many, but if you are a top performer and last a few years you will be rewarded. I have golden handcuffs keeping me here. G/FB cannot match my TC.
You argue if our stock hasn’t gone up so much (or perhaps if I hadn’t been TT/promoted), I wouldn’t be better off - but it has. If our stock tanked tomorrow I’d probably leave because my TC would plummet. Till then I will continue enjoying the ride.