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Good Challenges, Frugal Facilities

Software Development Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Amazon for 1 year
February 24, 2013
Bengaluru, Karnataka
2.0
RecommendsNeutral OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Your CTC might appear as a good number (read the offer doc carefully, even the employer PF goes from your CTC).

Number of stocks (mostly you'll get them after 3 years - depends upon the employee).

Lot of technical challenges (which is good for learning).

Employees don't speak English; they'll speak in some programming languages :)

Cons

As someone mentioned, employees are "resources". Management will look at you as a "price tag".

Facilities are too frugal, and I feel most of the employees became "miser" after joining here.

They'll say it's "cheap and best", but most of the time, it's just "cheaper". You have to ask for everything (even simple stationaries) and fight for a hike.

  • No free transport (around 4k per month in India).
  • Never expect work-life balance (might have seen this in other reviews).
  • Can't do any higher studies in correspondence even with your own money (due to some stupid policy).
  • And at last, never expect any perks (apart from tea/coffee and employee medical insurance).

This company will change the way you look at money; you may miss the other part of your life after joining!

Why I'm still here? Just to get a brand name on my resume!

Advice to Management

You look so cheap! Just reduce the "frugality" bar!

Don't be cheap just to add a point in your performance review!

Arrange some team-building activities (like team-outing, team-lunch). When I look at my colleagues, I can think only about "object, class, abstract, etc."... nothing else!

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