Amazon Engineering Department Employee Reviews
Briefly describe your overall experience at your company
Good colleagues. Good work life balance. Subpar pay. Terrible promotion process and growth
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What do you like best about the leadership team?
Focus on leadership principles and on the customer. Very rarely do I recall leadership talking about making money, most often its about the customer pain point to solve
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always customer focus minded business model.
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Great explicit leadership principles spelled out, and explicit adherence to them and guidance from them
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Camaraderie when times are hard.
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Structured and planning, considerate of people's circumstances
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What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Start to think on the long term of the business and stop chasing short term profit. Take care of it's people so they don't leave or worst, get sick because of the company.
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Following their own Amazon Principles, using data to make decisions
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work life balance need better
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It's not very useful to receive feedback months after the fact and then to have old issues that were raised and addressed to be raised in the annual review. An annual review cycle isn't very useful when we're evaluated almost every day.
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Making employees feel connected to their decisions
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What is the best part about your compensation package?
Salary is good compared to the market
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Cash bonuses are nice. But compensation is low.
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Restricted stock units that grow with the market.
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Better than other offers I got
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Thats it is a lot.
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Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
Very very little raise, regardless of performance
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broad range is not good
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i think i should get paid more, and get promoted to the higher level
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I'm paid below the average on levels.fyi and I haven't had a raise for 2 years.
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I actually feel like I'm being paid too much compared to my peers, or rather my peers aren't being paid fairly.
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What are some of the best things about your team?
Very helpful and friendly colleagues
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I work with amazingly smart people, and they are actually nice and helpful.
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Some folks are helpful. spend their life force to deliver results
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good cooperation, autonomy, transparency, professionalist
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That fact we share the same views.
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What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
Peers are great, the executive and Directors need to get together to figure out a direction.
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Take more ownership over setting and owning quality of products and deliveries
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Work is single threaded so greater collaboration would be better else people end up in silos
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better and good com with time
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It starts with the manager. When it seems the manager is trying to catch us doing something wrong as opposed to doing something right, that kills open and free communication.
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What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
Pleasant colleagues to work with. Social interactions such as interest group on various hobbies
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The ability to challenge any idea as long as it's done with reasonable arguments and data.
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Team - positive, small team, communicates well. Larger company - negative, too competitive, arrogant only concerned with maximizing profit and minimizing cost. Amazon does not do 'fun'.
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The deep thinking that goes into everything we do is refreshing.
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To see smiles on faces.
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What needs to change to make the company culture better?
Start caring about people's health. Promote wellbeing and healthy work habits.
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Team is great, leadership is detached and doesn't understand the work
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Respect for the employees. No work life balance. Very harsh work environment
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Too much churn in management. Lots of $ spent on recruiting but once hired, you're on your own to sink or swim.
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Improved worklife balance. Giving people to time to learn business and operations before throwing them with impossible task and assigning ownership
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What did you like most about the interview process?
Efficiently handled and properly managed
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Concensus voting. Appropriate level of coding requires
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The smart and interesting questions asked. Using the STAR method and data driven nature of the interview.
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The people that interviewed me, for the most part.
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Focus on the candidate and on hard data rather than just opinions from the interview
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What would you improve about your company's interview process?
ask better questions..jerks interviewing candidates
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What makes you most happy at work?
Learning new things makes me happy at work
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Working with smart, fun, driven hard-working, customer obsessed co-workers
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The challenge of interesting problems to solve.
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The freedom thats given to employees.
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The colleagues are really nice and supportive
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What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
Too much focus on frugality and profit. Not enough focus on sustainability in all aspects. Sustainable work environment, sustainable business. Everything is geared towards fast growth. Lots of churn. Employees do not stay longer than 2 years on average.
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Disability and leave services team is useless and adversarial.
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All the software is legacy and enormous and the expectation is to learn everything yesterday and deliver even faster
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Things move too fast. Big company a lot moving parts. People expected to work more hours
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The executives need to come together and make a solution
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What do you like best about your company?
The people. They are smart and talented.
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What would you most like to see improved at your company?
I would think i need to improve a little bit of everything
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