I've heard many different people say that it's terrible to work at Amazon. But I've never heard anyone tell what is wrong specifically. They usually talk in a broader sense, like, it's terrible, it's a lot worse than competitors, etc. What's exactly so bad about it? Is it the work life balance? Is it the managers' behaviour towards you? Managers' expectations are unreasonable? Is it the projects you are given? Are there some bad policies company wide? Is it just small but a lot of things? What is it that makes a lot of people hate working there? #softwareengineer #swe #amazon
I've heard many complaints about every one of the things you mentioned
it only means you haven’t being paying attention..
Whole environment inside is toxic, and it encourages a lot of bad managers to thrive. Some teams are definitely good and they have good work. Number of such teams is super low currently and it's better to not take risks for it. Join only if you're sure about work from someone working in the team, also these days a lot of teams are super heavy on ops work so no development thing to do.
Amazon has a totally despotic abusive management culture, where your manager has a mandated URA quota driving them to PIP stalk new hires from the start and the OLR stack ranking process means that there is no team work but just a scramble over the corpses of other reports to throw each other under the bus and avoid a PIP / Pivot. The constant churn of folks means that legacy core is held together with tape and has a huge Ops load with stuff handed to operations well short of finished so managers can move onto the next shiny project and sock up to leadership and of course no one has time to help during ramp up onboarding and nobody is retained long enough to complete documentation on the systems and your manager can put you on PIP from month three after hiring......... I probably missed quite a bit but a short review of the Amazon channel on Blind will provide plenty of data points.
The truth is that most people here are lying, unlucky, or just not performing to the bar. Amazon doesn’t have a hiring bar and a lot of unqualified people get in. Unlike other companies, they are fired quickly. Hire fast - fire fast. You also have to look at the scale, Amazon hires more than any other tech company and they currently employ almost 700,000 people according to LinkedIn. Of course, there are cases with a bad managers but those are rarer than Blind makes it seem. The culture is not bad, it is just not for everyone. Especially, for people who coast and work 10-15hr/week and come to Amazon with “rest and vest” mentality. Do your job and you will be more than okay.
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