Amazon reviews

They hire you as Software "DEVELOPMENT" engineer and making you do everything : QA, Ops etc. They have short project deadlines (<1 month sometimes). This translates to excruciatingly long hours of work. It drastically impacted my family life. Pager supports keeps you awake on a friday night. I used to see fellow Amazonians carrying pager to museums, parks with their family. They may have to stop having fun and work on thier laptop at parks. The compensation sounds interesting for first two years and then falls flat. They talk about frugality all the time which means hardly any office get-togethers. I would discourage Amazon as your future workplace unless work is everything you have in life. Not a engineer friendly company. I moved to bay area and a very happy person now working for Google.

- completely disrespectful management with no people skills who think they can develop this project faster and better than anyone on your team and have no interest in listening to anything you say - what do you mean you have a life outside of the office??? (on call rotation; completely unrealistic schedules for completing work items; expectations that you will work late, on weekends and on holidays. I asked to take one day off in 3 weeks, I was told "No", a week later, my manager goes on a 10 day holiday.) - frustrating development tools and environments. non-industry standard, outdated documentation