Reviews van Amazon

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Amazon Web Services, deel van Amazon, heeft het motto 'Work hard, have fun, make history'; en dit is zeker waar voor Amazon en AWS in de Benelux. Amazon/AWS is al jaren actief lokaal in Nederland maar werkt redelijk op de achtergrond - de producten spreken voor zichzelf als het ware. De organisatie staat lokaal en in EMEA zelfstandig maar er is natuurlijk ook veel interactie met collega's in de USA, UK, Duitsland, Asie...

Minpunten

Er is altijd werk te doen, je moet dit echter wel zelf aanbrengen en die balans toepassen. Er is geen druk om dit te doen, het is meer de natuurlijke drive van de mensen die doorgaans de zelfstandigheid hebben om goed bij Amazon/AWS te werken.

Advies aan management

Keep the bar high & secure the culture.

Pluspunten

* Internationale uitdagingen; * omgeving waarin je gechallenged wordt * verloning inclusief aandelen

Minpunten

* work/ life balance * development of people * continuïteit in leiderschap (bijna ieder jaar een nieuwe manager)/ personeelsverloop

Advies aan management

investeer in personeel & opleidingen

Pluspunten

Er zijn veel doorgroeimogellijkheden in dit bedrijf die heel erg snel evolueert. Winst participatie en gratis aandelen behoren tot het loonpakket

Minpunten

Promoties/loonverhogingen zijn gebasserd op peer reviews die eerder subjectief dan objectief zijn, hetgeen een nefast effect kan hebben en een cultuur van wanvertrouwen kan scheppen

Advies aan management

Spend more effort to retain employees

Pluspunten

Groot en bekend bedrijf veel werkgelegenheid en veel mogelijk eden goed management en niet chaotisch het was erg gezellig en leuk om te werken

Minpunten

Niet mijn droom baan en mijn fun tie voelde niet erg belangrijk omdat er meerdere mensen waren met dezelfde functie

Advies aan management

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Pluspunten

- Goed loon - Geweldige leerervaring - Leiderschapprincipes

Minpunten

- Soms erg bureaucratische processen - Luxemburg

Pluspunten

Really smart people, a lot of opportunity for growth, always encouraged to be innovative, think big, and create something new. Competitive salary and benefits with other major tech companies. 100% self motivating work environment. No dress code and 4 legged friends are welcome.

Minpunten

You have to be self motivated. NO ONE will hold your hand and tell you that you're doing a great job. If you need constant affirmations from management, this company isn't for you.

Advies aan management

More on-boarding training before new employees are thrown in the fire. The first couple of weeks can be very confusing on where to find the information you need that pertains to your job.

Pluspunten

Jeff Bezos and his "S-Team" are brilliant and continue to make great decisions for long-term growth. You work with smart people, you work on exciting projects, you are pushed to your limits...which can be rewarding when you accomplish great things. The diversity of the potential work and innovation can be very alluring. I've often called Amazon my "Sexy Mistress...she's emotionally abusive, but she's so sexy that...

Minpunten

The management process is abusive, and I'm currently a manager. I've seen too much "behind the wall" and hate how our individual performers can be treated. You are forced to ride people and stack rank employees...I've been forced to give good employees bad overall ratings because of politics and stack ranking.

Advies aan management

Don't pretend that the recent NY Times article was all about "isolated incidents". The culture IS abusive and it WILL backfire once stock value starts to drop. I'm an 8 year veteran and I no longer recommend former peers to interview with Amazon.

Pluspunten

I've been at Amazon for a month now, and I've seen none of the horror stories being communicated to the public, although Amazon is a large enough company that I'm sure there are good pockets and bad pockets. Everyone here is really smart, and wants to succeed both personally, and as a company. People collaborate and help each other, focus on data, and truly focus on the customer. Every company I've ever worked for talks...

Minpunten

No cons, so far - seriously. Like I said, I'm sure Amazon has some bad pockets in it here and there, but this is an amazing job, an amazing opportunity, and the biggest thing I have to complain about is that it's a little chilly in our building. I can live with that. Does Amazon demand high quality, measurable results? Yes! Is it hard work? Yes! Is it rewarding? Yes! So I'm not calling that a 'con'. Work/life balance...

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Amazon is doing lot's of cool stuff...but lots of boring stuff too. There are really well run teams...and very badly run teams. The experience for software managers and engineers is all over the board, from really run low operational load teams to teams where people burn out after a year. - Amazon is built, quite deliberately, to be Darwinian. You can generally expect that anyone who's been here for more than 2...

Minpunten

- You're responsible for your own career progression and finding the places and teams that are doing the stuff you want to do. No one is going to take you by the hand and help you with that. - Amazon is built, quite deliberately, to be Darwinian. The strong survive and the weak perish (metaphorically speaking) and the 'bar' is constantly increasing. The level of performance that would have been acceptable five years...

Advies aan management

Stack ranking is a horrible practice since it's rife with favoritism. It's also not Amazonian in that it's not data based (arbitrarily designating a certain percentage of employees that must be put on performance management isn't a data driven criterion) and it's not frugal (effectively forcing an individual out of the company in one division who would make the grade in another is either retaining someone who doesn't...

Pluspunten

This company gets A list performance from C list employees. The culture is quick and hard charging. You are always working in relevant and meaningful projects.

Minpunten

Maybe because the company recruits C listers who have neither merit (intelligence, strategic vision) nor pedigree (academic or professional accomplishments), most of those who become successful do so in treacherous, low cunning ways. Imagine the Lannisters in Game of Thrones attacking the Starks in Game of Thrones; or Rawls and Burrell attacking McNulty and Daniels in The Wire; or Barrow and O'Brien attacking Mr Bates...

Advies aan management

Bezos you bought the Washington Post and hired Jay Carney to be your PR head. There is nothing I can write here that you would deign listen to, because you are a hack. You must be mad that Expedia beat you to the punch and hired Chelsea Clinton to serve on their board of directors. For those grasping Weasels that have squirmed and back stabbed your way to success, you know who you are. You won't care what is written...