Hi All,
I will be joining Amazon this month, however whenever I go through Blind/quora, all I saw about Amazon are negative points like no WLB, lot of pressure etc.
Does any developers have any positive things to say about Amazon?
I want to join with a positive mindset but am really worried after browsing Blind.
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Its just the culture is a bit more cut-throat and less forgiving than other big tech companies, and the biggest voice are the new grads unknowingly getting the short end of the stick with Amazon's mass hire/mass fire (shortlist/shorcut interviews and hiring for entry level L4 etc), thrown out to the wolves, may the best man win culture. Most new grads do not and have not developed the skills to do well in that environment, so we hear about how *bad* it is from the biggest churn group of employees, naturally. Amazon doesnt want to hold your hand, but unfortunately new grads/junior levels need that more often than not. I dont blame them, its not easy when you have zero work experience and the first job is so cut-throat.
It's also ignorant people joining without fully understanding the role. For example in AWS as a Cloud Support Engineer. People complain it was tech support for AWS customers and there was on call rotation and blamed Amazon for lack of transparency due to WLB or job description. What the hell did you expect? It says SUPPORT in the title, not to mention a full job description. Its a 24x7x365 job. These types of things get heard the loudest. And these types of roles are easily farmed out to overseas support engineers due to coverage, hence the recruiting from odd countries. They dont get the management oversight and the social aspect or nurturing they deserve unfortunately.
However it seems to be less common with external hires with experience at L5/6+ and the ones who have stuck around because they tend to thrive in that culture and have developed some soft skills to adapt and/or work within that type of culture. Unless you just suck and terrible to work with, which is hoping to be mitigated by the lengthy behavioral/cultural aspect of the interview loop.
My advice to you, is to delete this app and go in with a clear mind to be able to form your own opinion. You are right. Reading a lot of these post can scare people away. I’ve been with Amazon for 4 months now and love it.
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To do well here, forget about the WLB posts and look for opportunities. Leadership Principles can be abused but overall, they can help you focus on the problems the business cares about.
Our perks are ... limited (I'm not in Seattle) so dont count on special treatment.
Enter hungry and look for opportunities to show impact. Document your wins because it makes the promo packet easier down the line