Worst work culture and no work life balance - Database Administrator Amazon Employee Review

1.0
22 Aug 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Joining Pay looks Good Initially Lots of learning will be here

Cons

There are lots of cons about this company and few i am listing here. 1. There is no work life balance in this company. They will load hell lots of work on employee where employee have to work 14-15 hours per day. Even weekend will be sacrificed due to tons of work. 2. Organizations says we don't follow bell curve but internally they will strictly follow it. HR BP partner will ask manager to put 10% of the employee in the team in (Dev + PIP ) plan, so manager will be looking for the scapegoat to whom they can put in Dev plan. The smallest of the mistake employee do they will make their life hell and put them in PIP plan and ask lots of activity to do to come out of dev plan. Literally they will grilled the employee and treat them like a slave. This unfair treatment is more to India employee compared to onshore employee. 3. Employee here doing a great job so the company is growing but during appraisal time they will have n number of reason for not giving a base salary hike. They will say shares prices are increasing so no hike for you. 4. They have three salary component (Base+Joining Bonus for 2 years+ shares) . so in general employee effective salary will be the same for 4-5 years and after 2 years drastic drop in salary and after four years even further. 5. Totally manager driven company and no role of HR BP. Managers likes boot licking employee and ignores the actual talent Will advise all to think twice before joining Amazon.. Don't look just the initial compensation because here your work life balance will be sacrificed and health will be in toss due to stress. "Health is Wealth" you can earn money any time.

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Pros

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