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Amazon Lab126

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Amazon's compensation philosophy is a disaster - Software Development Engineer Amazon Lab126 Employee Review

3.0
Apr 14, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

The work itself matches my background well. The team members and my manager has been friendly and helpful.

Cons

Amazon only gives you 20% of your RSUs in the first two years. No refreshers if they determine that the stock has gone up for some amount since you joined, and no annual cash bonus. The so-called "salary band is already met" is just an excuse. If you look at other big tech companies, Google, Facebook, Apple, etc. none of them is doing the same thing to their own employees. Not only Amazon stock goes up in the past few years. Amazon has a leadership principle called "frugality". Yeah, frugality against employees, and all the money saved goes into Jeff's pocket.

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5.0
Jun 12, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

amazing culture, really supportive, mostly healthy competition

Cons

less career growth in comparison to aws people

4.0
Jul 21, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The team is welcoming and supportive, with designers across visual, motion, and sound design (rare for Amazon) However, opportunities to collaborate across teams are relatively limited.

Cons

Decision-making can take time due to multiple stakeholder reviews. Balancing design quality with business constraints can be challenging. Job security has become less predictable in recent years.

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