Amazon Web Services reviews

Anyone who has stayed at Amazon longer than their first four years, eg your next manager, is likely on the sociopathic spectrum. You have to be soulless to survive and thrive here, because the company is soulless. Amazon is full of performative corporate drones that have learned to game the system and will use an array of tools to make themselves look good while diminishing your and other subordinate employees contributions. The leadership, particularly Jassy and Garman, are visionless and uninspiring. They don’t have any good growth ideas to combat competitors so they are using their monopsony power to squeeze margin out of the employee base to goose up the stock price. This adversarial approach to management has turned the South Lake Union campus into something of a gilded prison. The gleaming buildings hide an upside down world in which the least competent but most ruthless people run the show. Your work and contributions are consumed by these ruthless people to further their careers. You get to keep your paycheck, but not your dignity, as long as you’re willing to play the game.

- Complexity is very high. - Most leaders/managers lack leadership skills, they just follow policies and procedures, when you challenge them, they just say it is Amazon culture... - Bureaucracy at the maximum without reason. - Toxic people all around, selfishness at the maximum. - Ethical behaviour from many people is tolerated under the title of Customer Obsession, which is by the way a big lie,, the only obsession is Jeff buy a bigger boat next year (to stay ethical). - Bias for action, is something used by you manager to blame you for any issue that you don't have nothing to do with. - Disagree and commit, is more like a fascist close that justify everyone to micro manage you. - Learn and be curious, only to be told your role is eliminated (not me at least for now). - Ownership, well, this is avoided by everyone, this is because it become a reason for anyone to give you their job and blame you afterward. Also technically you need to work 24/7 to fulfil this. - Think Big, get less salary and make Jeff boat bigger.