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Amazon Lab126

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Once was great... - Hardware Engineering Manager Amazon Lab126 Employee Review

2.0
Mar 4, 2015
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Pros

We had great people. Fun and rewarding projects. Great pay.

Cons

Recent reorgs in hardware engineering. Some genius put the upper management team that failed for 3 years developing our flop of a phone, in charge of the successful kindle team. Now kindle is trash, much of the talented engineers have gone to our competition and the rest of the kindle teams are scrambling to leave this horrible management trio. You know politics are bad when you can be responsible for the company's biggest failure and still be allowed to take over and tank the successful product line.

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5.0
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Pros

amazing culture, really supportive, mostly healthy competition

Cons

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4.0
Jul 21, 2026
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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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