Amazon

• Leadership principles learned at Amazon can be very helpful for your career and even in life.
• If you are in the right team, you can have the opportunity to do some really good work.

Some leadership principles are not applied in a good, measured way. By some, I mean the principle of frugality.

For example, desktops and laptops are shitty, to an extent that they slow down work sometimes. Another example is making it as hard as possible for filing and getting reimbursements.

Pay is very low compared to the market once you have spent more than a year. Salaries don't increase at all, and there are no new RSUs until you get promoted.

There is bad management in most teams/orgs.

It takes too long to start the Green Card process compared to other companies.

Hiring quality varies a lot.

There is no subsidized or free food. Happy hours or employee/team bonding events are very rare. Even when choosing a lunch place for a rare team bonding, for example, one has to pay attention to not spending more than a certain amount of money on lunch.

• Please apply frugality in a more sensible way.
• Pay attention to employee satisfaction as well. Do at least subsidized lunch, and provide better computers and laptops.