Amazon reviews

Upper management is to be obeyed under all circumstances, which can sometimes mean that a project must switch gears or be held up waiting for senior management approval. Company has gotten so big that bureaucracy rules the day - getting resources from other teams or getting sign-off requires filling out forms, attending meetings to beg for things to get done, all while your own project must be done at breakneck speed. Topgrading philosophy means that bottom 10% of employees are automatically "managed out" of the company with no exceptions. This can sometimes mean that employees that we would hire according to the hiring bar must be fired. This also breeds a culture of fear, and doesn't inspire great work performance, but instead preening in front of managers to get good marks while throwing others under the bus.

1) Mgmt need to be better trained. Many people mgrs do not know how to lead. I highlight "LEAD" instead of "manage". Your experience as an employee here is dictated 100% by your mgr here, and if you are dealt a bad one, you're screwed as the company is too fast to notice what is going on with bad mgrs focused on only results and not developing their people. HR is in general useless and will not step in to help employees on these concerns. 2) Benefits are close to none. The company will make you feel you are a worthless piece of garbage via its self-critical culture (they take it too far), but somehow still give you a lot of stocks so your total compensation is still great. But you feel like a slave for our customers and newbies get burnt out by this. I got used to this as time went on but it requires a strong personality. 3) Intl divisions - especially Asia subs, are completely randomized and chaotic either in business direction or in mgmt capabilities as leaders - dont just focus on growth and make sure you have the right employee dev resources put in place and empower your HR people to actually do something.