Does not hesitate to over-work employees... - Database Administrator Amazon Employee Review

3.0
Jan 13, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

- Smart people all around keeping you on toes. - Culture of thinking out of box. - Tough milestones to achieve promotions ... extracts the best out of the employees. - A transparent internal job transfer to suit an employee's choice.

Cons

- pathetic work-life balance. - in the name of frugality , they do some cheap and mean things like choose a facility in the remotest corner of the city where facilities are cheap. - the job offer letter misleads almost every employee...in the sense that the stocks given to an employee is considered every year during appraisal and the increment in salary will be in inverse proportion of stocks vested, so if lots of stocks gets vested , the company won't give you much hike even if you are a top performer. - Hard to get recognized for good-work but fast enough to get criticized for an error. - Have a history of Lay-off at trifle error.

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5.0
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Pros

Good work environment, supportive team, flexible schedule, and great opportunity to learn new technologies.

Cons

Workload can sometimes be high and communication between teams could be improved.

5.0
Jan 10, 2016
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Recommend
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Pros

Really smart people, a lot of opportunity for growth, always encouraged to be innovative, think big, and create something new. Competitive salary and benefits with other major tech companies. 100% self motivating work environment. No dress code and 4 legged friends are welcome.

Cons

You have to be self motivated. NO ONE will hold your hand and tell you that you're doing a great job. If you need constant affirmations from management, this company isn't for you.

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