Generous (though somewhat volatile) compensation.
When the stock is not doing well, the pay is just okay. When the stock is doing well, it can be quite lucrative, especially if you hang around long enough to ride the waves.
There are some great people at Amazon, but there are some toxic people (and teams) as well. Find a good department and team, and Amazon can be great. Find a bad one, and life can be hell. Transfer if you can ASAP.
The biggest problem is the way global policies are announced and carried out without feedback heard from employees. The way the layoffs were handled (with a looming threat for months), and then the way the remote work policy was rolled out then rolled back was truly one of the most abysmal showings in corporate history.
Be sensitive to the anxiety your policies and communications cause your employees. It is not helpful to give people months of "early warning" of future actions and events unless they are actionable. Don't tell us layoffs are coming months ahead of time -- there is zero we can do with that information except get anxious. Just do the layoffs. Rip off the band-aid. Don't tell us we can work from home permanently, then yank it back and put people through an anxiety-provoking exception process, wondering if our lives will be upended. Use your management chain to communicate and implement instead of blasting everyone and causing a panic.
Fast process. Recruiting experience was great. Timely response. Excellent interviewers. 5 panel interviews. Great experience across all steps. Managerial profile - people manager. Interviewed by all L6 and L7 Managers and Engineers. Position was b
The recruiter connected with me through LinkedIn and invited me for the SDM interview process. I had a first-round phone interview with the SDM. There were a lot of "Tell me" type questions and a simple system scalability design question. I was invi
There are 2 rounds. First: Tech screen, which is done by another manager. This will mostly involve touching base on your experience with previous projects and some minimum background questions on the technical side. Second: 6 rounds, which will cov
Fast process. Recruiting experience was great. Timely response. Excellent interviewers. 5 panel interviews. Great experience across all steps. Managerial profile - people manager. Interviewed by all L6 and L7 Managers and Engineers. Position was b
The recruiter connected with me through LinkedIn and invited me for the SDM interview process. I had a first-round phone interview with the SDM. There were a lot of "Tell me" type questions and a simple system scalability design question. I was invi
There are 2 rounds. First: Tech screen, which is done by another manager. This will mostly involve touching base on your experience with previous projects and some minimum background questions on the technical side. Second: 6 rounds, which will cov