TOP PERFORMERS BEWARE! Terrible pay inequality amongst teams at corporate.
Pros
Social Status. People think it’s cool to work at Amazon but it’s NOT. People think you’re rich if you work at Amazon but you’re NOT! It’s all part of the facade. I was lucky and had a great manager who valued me and fought for me, but at the end of the day HR doesn’t care about you. You’re a number to them and you’re stuck with your poor compensation no matter how many times you get promoted.
Cons
I was on a bus dev team on the consumer side. Terrible pay inequality amongst team members at corporate. I was training people on my team who were the same level and they were making $30-50k more than me. I was consistently a top performer and Amazon HR made no effort to fix this situation even after my manager pleaded with them. In fact, HR initially refused to even meet with me to discuss it until I escalated to our HR partners manager who quickly scheduled the meeting only to tell me that Amazon does not pay equitably for employees who are promoted. They pay 30-50% below market value for the role if you are promoted and there is absolutely no way to improve your salary so you have to leave the company. TOP PERFORMERS BEWARE! DO NOT WORK HERE IF YOU WANT TO BE REWARDED FOR YOUR EXTREMELY HARD WORK. Amazon under pays employees who are promoted internally. There were constantly people making 40% more than me being fired while I had been a top performer for over 3 years.
