Originally posted by jc91087: Anyone know or have any experience with this position?
I've read a lot of negative things about the job - long hours, overworked, toxic leadership, no life outside of the job, etc.
Pay seems to be good but not sure if the job's worth applying for.
I wouldn't know about toxic leadership but for the rest, they're not paying you to be on a resort. I'm not trying to be snarky; I think it's just what it is now a days.
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For a company that's allegedly so abusive, they don't have a half bad rating on Glassdoor: Amazon reviews on Glassdoor
Ratings appear to be trending up, too.
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I did a large rebuild job a while back for an Amazon area manager in Kentucky after their house suffered a bad water damage. I never saw him, just his wife over the course of 2 months. She said that Amazon moves them every twoish years. They were in their 4th or 5th state in about 10 years time. Amazon paid well for it was an expensive house and she didn't work, but I could tell it was hard on their home life.
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My Brother worked for AWS for a number of years in Sales, very successfully. While financially rewarding he was always on the road, or stressed out by the demands put on him.
His complaint was there was no professional growth plan, even after he spoke with his superiors to put one together. He has 2 MBA's from 2 top 10 B-schools
He got hired by Google and left. Says the business culture is night and day
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From everything I've heard about Amazon, I'd never work for them, as anything from a warehouse drone to technical professional. The work their employees to death.
I know several people who work at Amazon dealing very closely with warehouse staff and all levels of management. Every bad thing you’ve read above is true. Long hours, poor management, constant movement to progress, extremely high turn over rate, etc. If you need a job you need a job there’s worse places to work, but if you want a career look elsewhere. It’s been my experience that most do after Amazon burns them out.
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Originally posted by LBAR15: I know several people who work at Amazon dealing very closely with warehouse staff and all levels of management. Every bad thing you’ve read above is true. Long hours, poor management, constant movement to progress, extremely high turn over rate, etc. If you need a job you need a job there’s worse places to work, but if you want a career look elsewhere. It’s been my experience that most do after Amazon burns them out.
Being prior Military, I'm trying to decide if it's people just not used to working long hard hours or truly a crappy place to work. Starting to look like the latter unfortunately.
Originally posted by BBMW: From everything I've heard about Amazon, I'd never work for them, as anything from a warehouse drone to technical professional. The work their employees to death.
That is consistent with what I have heard. Their profit margin on sales for the past 6 yeas averages $0.70 profit on $100 sales. They have to shave costs everywhere they can (except at the top of course )
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Originally posted by ensigmatic: For a company that's allegedly so abusive, they don't have a half bad rating on Glassdoor: Amazon reviews on Glassdoor
Ratings appear to be trending up, too.
Part of me wonders if they're paying people to put up fake reviews to repair their bad image.
I wouldn't put it past them.
With all the bad things that have been said, I would pass on them. You don't need that type of bullshit in your life.
Toxic leadership is the worst. You can deal with a lot of work, you can deal with bad customers/clients. But dealing with toxic leadership is a battle you can't win. I believe that comes from the culture of the company because higher ups allow that to happen.
You’ll work old school. They don’t suffers fools or excuses. If you need affirmations, safe places or PJ.s to work in, Amazon wouldn’t be a good choice. Although I don’t work there, I wish more places had this work ethic.
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Being prior Military, I'm trying to decide if it's people just not used to working long hard hours or truly a crappy place to work. Starting to look like the latter unfortunately.
I'm prior military, unless you're talking about doing 3 days patrol in some conflict area, military long hard hours do not compare to private sector long hard hours.
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