Amazon, do you have any shame?

Jul 21, 2021 84 Comments

Your benefits are crap.
Your politics are unhealthy and a lot.
Your pay is not top tier.
You stock vesting is so frugal. Stupid 5 15 40 40
Your hire to fire and pip culture is shitty.
Your work like balance (oh sorry work life harmony) is poor.

Your get dinged on every possible forum on earth for not being employee friendly.

No wonder your recruiters run around our inboxes every day without any luck. Most people don't even want to join you.

I wish amazon was a better company for employees. But unfortunately, it's just a customer centric company. Unfortunately, the leaders from Amazon are so stupid that they don't even know that it's your employees who keep the customers happy so you must treat them well.

Edit: Why do I care about all this? I really wished to work for Amazon but the aforementioned frugal culture and shitty employee treatment keeps me away from Amazon.

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  • Facebook / Eng
    zzuck

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    zzuck
    Amzn sucks but not that bad. Msft sucks too. Why are you so salty and invested into this?
    Jul 21, 2021 13
    • SAP
      isitMike?

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      isitMike?
      @MWvy65, I'm about to join AMZN, will see. Of course it's brutal in compare to Microsoft, not some random startup where people work 24/7 and got paid by high hopes.
      Jul 23, 2021
    • Amazon
      MWvy65

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      MWvy65
      No need to compare to startups. Just compare it to Facebook, Uber, Lyft, Snap, etc. SAP is like a little kids playing. Amazon is just an introduction to the actual world.
      Jul 24, 2021
  • Amazon
    jasandy

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    jasandy
    OP, who hurt you?
    Jul 21, 2021 11
    • Amazon
      jazzyandy

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      jazzyandy
      Firstly, Amazon created job opportunity (bad WLB comes with it, sure, agreed). You're a free man. You get to chose. So Amazon opportunity is still available. It's you who doesn't want to be there for your personal reasons (fear of getting pipped).

      Secondly, I am not at Amazon.. control yout outburst
      Jul 21, 2021
    • OP
      Firstly, it's not just me. Most people don't want to work there. The reasons are not just pipped and they are not personal they are public and acknowledged by everyone but you
      You called me a cry baby working at a low bar company like Microsoft.. lol.. so I am just returning the favor, my so called outburst on you is because of your response and it has nothing to do with amazon. πŸ˜‰πŸ₯±
      Jul 21, 2021
  • Amazon
    msnsjsnsna

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    msnsjsnsna
    They just say it’s better than Msft. Satya should give more πŸ₯œ to employees so that we can easily leave Amazon.
    Jul 21, 2021 6
  • Amazon
    Tomatoes9

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    Tomatoes9
    Maybe I just got on a really good team, but from my 6 months here I've had no issues with the benefits (medical top tier, trust me I've worked elsewhere and it can be pretty bad).

    Politics are the same as any other workplace. You gotta represent yourself and be liked. Nothing special.

    Pay is really really good. Sure G pays more but I'm not gonna whine about my pay when I know how little is paid elsewhere for SWEs. (Current TC 180k for SDE1).

    Stock vesting meh, the bonus makes up for it the first 2 years anyway. I take that money and invest it so no difference to me.

    Can't speak on pip culture since I've only been here 6 months and on track for promo in another 6. Getting docs ready.

    Work life balance has been excellent. Less than 40 hrs a week. When on call it can hit 45-50 but never anything late night or weekends.

    Like I said, I'm not gonna undermine anyone else's experience. This is just mine and I'm glad I made the choice to work here. Sorry you feel otherwise
    Jul 21, 2021 6
    • Amazon
      Tomatoes9

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      Tomatoes9
      Eh that won't happen for 2 years so I may even jump by then. I'm pretty confident in AMZN stock though over the next few years so not worried! I'm also not the type of person to fret over my RSU values :) I'm grateful for what I have
      Jul 21, 2021
    • Recruiters told me they will issue more RSUs if needed to make sure that people hit their target TC at least.
      Aug 16, 2021
  • Amazon
    (*-*)

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    (*-*)
    What happened??? We're you piped?
    Jul 21, 2021 4