Amazon Engineer reviews

Often people try to solve non-technical problems by engineering themselves out of them (not an exact situation, but similar to: let's create a tool so we don't have to talk to each other too much). Don't see people smiling in the office very often. Culture a bit dull and disappointing, emphasis on working hard. People get promoted for working hard and peer feedback instead of competencies, which leads to frustration of those competent. Not much teamwork, great focus on individual contributions, which leads to unhealthy competition. If someone is frustrating others but delivers results, management usually won't help the situation with others.

It's well known Amazon is by far the worst of all the big four. Brutal aggressive work environment. Most of the work is not that interesting. Expect to be treated like a cog in a big machine. Most of the experience is Amazon specific and not transferable. The only people who stay longer than 2 years stay for the stock. If you want to be treated well and have a good work life balance, don't work for Amazon.