Want to know what it’s like to work at Amazon?
Some people love it, some people hate it. Users on the social media site Quora have been discussing their views on the subject after another user posted the question, “What is the internal culture like at Amazon?”
Jim Skinner, senior TPM at Amazon Instant Video, wrote: “Having previously worked at a few different Fortune 500 tech companies (Microsoft, Cisco, AT&T) I can say with some degree of certainty that there is no other, large tech company that is as respectful of its employees and as customer driven as Amazon is. Employees are treated as absolute equals in the workplace and every single person has a significant impact on the final product. When you come to work at Amazon you know you are going to do some amazing things, and every one of your co-workers is going to support you (to the extent that their role permits).”
eBookNewser has more: “One anonymous user writes, ‘For an engineer? It’s draining. Absolutely draining. The oncall shifts, constant technical debt, overwork… I never worked so hard and then made to feel guilty for not getting enough done. Good grief and good riddance. Stopped working there last year…'”
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