Amazon reviews

PTO accrual is initially low Can not carry over PTO year to year

- Low total of paid holidays - 4 year vesting strategy is mainly the incentive to stay - Terrible work/life balance to meet unrealistic deliverable deadlines for a person/team, often resulting in more hours to meet deliverable and thus setting the standard for deliverables going forward - Having to heavily document and write a majority of your own successes to prove why you deserve to be promoted - Return to office 5 days a week - With AI, the expectation to deliver has increased far beyond the expectations that people are meant to handle - Everything is prefaced with a design document or a one-pager - Decisions made by higher ups often don't get propagated down until the day of the announcement (RTO, layoffs, etc) - Great talent laid off to support business decisions despite being one of the highest net profit grossing company - No Amazon Prime, discounts at Whole Foods, or free food at the office - No semblence of employee culture as everyone is focused on deliverables and neglecting social aspect due to work culture - Not enough desks to support RTO (some conference rooms were turned into desks/bullpens)