Interesting work, challenging, tangible accomplishments, growth opportunities.
Good location in SLU.
Ability to try completely different/new things, i.e., move from retail to AWS, Kindle, Video, Publishing, IMDB, Zappos, etc.
Five to six all-day stack ranking meetings per year make managers feel like judges on Survivor.
The review system incentivizes switching teams/orgs every two to three years. If you aren't aggressively looking for ways to advance your career (i.e., hopping around), you'll eventually be viewed as low-growth and managed out. The constant churn is potentially good for employee growth but bad for organizational effectiveness.
OLR (organizational leadership review) is too political and has little to no relation to goals/accomplishments. Also, if a good employee is in the wrong role, try to get them in the right role before patting yourself on the back for fulfilling an arbitrary top-grading quota.
Frustration with the OLR process is the primary reason I quit. I loved working at Amazon as an engineer. I wouldn't return as a manager.
I was pinged by a recruiter on LinkedIn while exploring new roles. It started with the usual recruiter screen, covering past experience, leadership roles, and my motivation for the switch. Amazon's Leadership Principles (LPs) started showing up even
I had an initial screen where I thought I did okay, except they seemed to want to talk to someone who had set up enterprise-level architecture from scratch. This made me feel awkward as I didn't have exactly that experience. I don't know about you,
It took over a month for them to schedule the interviews. They asked me to send my availability for the next week each week for five weeks but never scheduled anything. Otherwise, their interview process is similar to Facebook.
I was pinged by a recruiter on LinkedIn while exploring new roles. It started with the usual recruiter screen, covering past experience, leadership roles, and my motivation for the switch. Amazon's Leadership Principles (LPs) started showing up even
I had an initial screen where I thought I did okay, except they seemed to want to talk to someone who had set up enterprise-level architecture from scratch. This made me feel awkward as I didn't have exactly that experience. I don't know about you,
It took over a month for them to schedule the interviews. They asked me to send my availability for the next week each week for five weeks but never scheduled anything. Otherwise, their interview process is similar to Facebook.