Audible reviews

Base pay is low Promotion opportunities are bad unless you are in "inner circle" Although you don't face any kind of direct discrimination, its reflected when it comes to promotions. I have seen cases with 2 Sr Manager who started around same time, both of equal caliber and talent but one of them is VP now and other one is still Sr Manager. If you can throw your team under the bus and take credit for their work, your chances for promotions sky rocket. Overall environment isn't collaborative...had turned into a very toxic environment. If you want to work with a great product but don't want to work hard but if you can show off that you do all the work and if you are good at politics, then its a perfect place for you.

- If stack ranking is in use (as an Amazon company), it isn't having desired effect. Enough of the middle management is at each others' throats to make the work environment awkward at a minimum, while also promoting aggressive, mediocre talent into management positions. - The leadership is averse to risk, but product and engineering aren't optimized to quickly A/B test iterative, lower-risk improvements. - Another review ascribes "startup pacing" to Audible. I don't know what that employees experience has been, but startups I've worked for have launched several large, complex features in a years' time (with smaller teams). In equivalent time at Audible, it's been non-trivial to make minor changes to a handful of pages. This is largely due to middle management crippling the decision-making process. - No transparency into available career development paths (if they exist). I was told that algorithms determine pay and seniority. - Much of management doesn't seem to be aware the path to innovation requires coming to terms with the amount of tech debt and moving away from dependency on Amazon's internal tech. - Several months of work often lead to nowhere. Be prepared to experience deja vu, as ideas are often resurrected and then scuttled. - The office is in Newark, and commute is far from ideal coming from New York.