Amazon Web Services reviews

Working in AWS datacenters can be extremely stressful and not fulfilling. Management is where a lot of the problems stem from in this company. This is a TECH job first and foremost however management doesn't understand that. In certain clusters almost NONE of your managers are former techs which shows you how they are about promoting people from within. They are trying to run datacenters almost like fulfillment centers. They don't understand that the two are completely different. A lot of good techs have left to go to competitors and yet the management sticks around. It's almost like a revolving door for good workers. Come in work hard for your team get denied promotions/raises leave and go somewhere else. There is also a good amount of micro-managing that happens so be prepared for that.

You are not listened to as an employee. They put you in a work share system. I did well as a stower and always consistently found myself in the top 10 out of about 180 stowers. The computer game monitor was a competition. So what, I did very well as a stower. The areas I struggled in to make rate was Out-Bound Packing and Inbound Decant. You get a message to report to a department that really isn't your department. I was wrote up 6 times and eventually fired. I was wrote up 5 times in Decant and 1 time in Packing.I knew nothing of my 3rd and 4th write ups until I gotten my 5th write up. I was going to be quitting around the month I was let go. I still made 3 to 4 times the money being self employed so no hard feelings. It's a myth that you can say no if you get a message on the workstation computer monitor to report to a different department. Dreading a department is no excuse! Go or otherwise get wrote up. You are called to a different department every day or night. Traning is really not training at Amazon. After two days you are on your own and accountable. You get wrote up on your first day of being on your own if you don't make the rate. I have to build up speed is no excuse at Amazon. There is no such thing as the speed will come later when you learn the job. You must have the speed now!