I have seen over blind that many users do not consider Amazon and a FAAAG company and are biased against Amazon. Isn’t it that third of the internet is running on Amazon AWS?
Go work there and find out. Or take the advice of all the salty people "working there with all their toxic internal management and general toxic culture isn't worth it."
I'd say working at AWS for 2 years at 2x TC might be worth it. However, in those 2 years you'll be super unhappy with pretty much everything. So you'll have to figure out if another 100% salary is worth being miserable for 2 years.
Not sure if this is the right analogy but anyway here I go. Uber was one of hottest startup at a point and had a good product where you had interesting tech problems and also good pay BUT it was fraught with sexual harassment allegations so some folks never wantrd to work for Uber. So Good pay plus good product but bad culture and wlb will result in some if not most people hating on that company .. I think amazon just fits the same bill.
I’d love to get sexually harassed at this point.
Amazon is known for a toxic work culture. Because of that and how poorly they treat their warehouse workers is why I wouldn’t consider working for them. There are plenty of other companies building cool stuff where they actually let their workers take bathroom breaks.
It's not just warehouse workers. Having worked there they literally pin everyone against each other. Extraordinary amounts of infighting and politics. Teams and orgs that are understaffed still need to PIP people out even if they are struggling to fill their open seats.
Then the remaining people have to do all the work the mediocre PIPed coworker was doing with no hope of backfilling the position, because AWS makes more money when less people do more work.
Amazon has shit work culture and bad managers. You could be a rockstar, but the manager can quote some examples and tie it to an LP and put you into Focus/PIP.
Because Blinders are jealous of Amazonians We have the best WLB, top notch pay, smartest peers, most competent managers, and hands down the best employee benefits in the industry And yea, no PIPs
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Basically you want us to reverse what you just said ?
Because AWS SDEs are dev-ops of “third of the internet running on Amazon AWS.”
Because most people can't hang. Amazon isn't the industry leader for no reason. Blind is a minority of a minority of people who complain about doing their jobs and performing at a high level.
Most people don't want to endure a toxic culture to help Jeff Bezos make more money. --Fixed.
That’s correct. Actually more than a third. Netflix runs on Amazon. Snap moved away from Google cloud to AWS completely. And Netflix consumes 30-40% of internet traffic at peak times
That traffic is mostly coming from the Netflix CDN, not AWS
Its not all bad. But the sheer volume of bad experience is big considering the size. Amazon gets a bad name because it claims to be a force for good. They set themselves up against high std. They claim they want to be best employer. But when u see things like lying on a feedback, downleveling ppl etc etc u wonderis it really that different than a large multinational like any other. same management philosophy applies. same rules of whats rewarded and whats not rewarded applies. so when someone is peculiar and punished u wonder… from personal exp i have had 5-8 managers (range to prevent doxxing). 2 were competent and remaining were not. 2 absolutely lied all the time and 1 was caught doing so by the team. but both have flourished. so your experience can vary as chalk and cheese. u will find extremely interesting problems to solve though.
It's only because the positive stories are either never told or never receive as much coverage as the negatives. I've personally up-leveled three people; probably a low number for the number of interviews I've done, but we haven't down-leveled anyone. Those people will never know they were up-leveled and they'll probably never be the type of people to join Blind and discover the politics of debriefs.
Force for good, against high std... I don't agree that Amazon sets high standards with people leadership. I have worked at 2 large product based companies before Amazon and I don't agree that Amazon is anywhere close to them at management/leadership philosophies.
The work culture is toxic. Amazon is faang and AWS is cool.
This. A lot of people don’t understand the distinction