Amazon User Experience Designer reviews

Some orgs (like Alexa) are constantly re-orging which is disruptive and makes work more difficult.

Besides two teams (digital devices group and HCD), design is in an overall bad situation at Amazon. The design standards and processes at the company-level are really, really far behind the other big tech companies. If you research, you'll find that despite attracting designers with nice compensation packages and holding design fairs to demonstrate how parts of Amazon are doing design well, very few designers who have worked at companies with good design standards stay at Amazon for longer than about a year. Only a handful of teams do design well amongst the hundreds of teams Amazon has and those are the ones that get paraded at design fairs for outsiders to see. Because of this, most designers that have stayed longer have set the bar very low. Engineering and product teams rarely hire good design leaders so they don't get understand how design can be integrated into product and development practices properly. Designers from other companies in the area whose design bar have never been very high (Expedia, Zillow, Smartsheet, Concur, RealNetworks, to name a few) are the ones who stick around and they're not setting a good example for how to execute on good design. If you care about good quality design, you'll be disappointed by how low the bar is.