Amazon Senior Manager Reviews

Likes

There is tremendous learning

Dislikes

Force Ranking Attrition goals for management Salary structure , basically your salary will drop after 2 years and you will reach your first paycheck level after 5 years if you dont get promoted .However promotions after Level 5-6 is very hard to come by. Zero Work life balance

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work timings: Strict Timings

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Nothing other than the Compensation

Dislikes

Everything; no employee integration, Zero hand-holding during the first 90 days, best place for solo soles, Divorced people, and Orphan/ family abandoned people.

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

1. Flexibility to choose office hours (not work hours) 2. Brand name 3. Novel work in some teams 4. Set processes and mechanisms

Dislikes

1. Subjective decisions based on leaders’ personal whims. Politics! Politics! And even more Politics! And the worst part is that they cover those up with fudged narratives and data points in front of senior leaders - e.g. giving credit for work done by person A when person B is the only person working on it, just because they preferA over B and want to get them promoted 2. Overgrown startup that is struggling to cope with growth on the infra side 3. Amazingly biased appraisal and promotion processes with no room for meritocracy - with top leaders leaving over the last 2 years, the next crop of leaders are incapable and lack vision not just on the business growth side but on people development side as well 4. Illogical talent related decisions recently - very short sighted 5. Used to be a customer backward working company but has turned 180 degrees and is in danger of being lost in the crowd of global firms that only care about money with zero focus on end consumers (again, very short sighted) 6. New set of leaders are incapable and try to cover up their inadequacies through irrational decisions that have zero logic and only focus on serving their own interests 7. Short in-office hours but long work hours, as you need to have calls with international leaders who ultimately have the final say in all decisions...Read More

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves International Travel.

Likes

Likes

Awesome support from Amazon

Dislikes

Lay-off

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves International Travel.

Likes

Smart people

Dislikes

Bureacracy, too many top level leaders pursuing personal ambition, politics.

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within Country, International Travel.

Likes

Innovation , brand

Dislikes

Office and fast culture

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within Country.

Likes

Good brand which provides job security

Dislikes

Work life balance is majorly impacted Hierarchy driven structure making difficult to grow

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.