Pros
- Good Benefits - Competitive Pay (when joining externally) - Industry-wide network of support throughout country - Agency to lead and develop projects - Exceptional access to large to very granular data - So many building, bouncing around sites across the country is the norm. - Ability to upskill/skill transfer is available
Cons
- New external hires quickly outpace in compensation - North American stack rank performance metrics determine raise internally, with downward executive pressure to minimize cost in compensation. - Disjointed standard procedures. Published and thrown at the wall until something sticks. - Scope of data typically loses focus. A dozen Dashboards to report and monitor regularly, measuring the same thing in different fonts. - Control Systems, specifically, lacks structured training nationally. Prior experience helps the technical aspects, however, standard procedures for Amazon specific material is severely lacking. - Objective goalposts are frequently changing - Turnover rates in nearly all departments are rapid and frequent disruption generates brain drain and skilled labor discrepancies - Culture is cutthroat and competitive to a fault - Highly political motivation and career movement