What is your opinion on Amazon's work culture?

Question

They login at 7:30 in morning work till 8PM, 10:30PM sometimes or even 3:00 AM. They work on saturdays as full-time. (I know it by the pings, group messages and emails they send, comments on tickets).I dont see anything bad in it. Just wondering why dont they value personal time like going to Gym, watch some movies, doing stuff they like instead of working more?I absolutely have no issues about them working overtime.

mtmail · Accepted Answer

Amazon has 1.6 million employees. Who is "they"? Is that a smaller group in a specific business unit, in a specific region, or a set of people you know?

adocomplete · Answer

Amazon is a huge company with over 1,000,000 employees. With such a large org, there will no doubt be entire units, divisions, and teams that are either overworked and have 0 work-life balance, and teams that have amazing work life balance, and everything in between.

warrenm · Answer

The folks I know at Amazon (in development and/or AWS client-facing roles) all work "normal" salaried hours - 40-45 hours a week, starting between 0700 and 1000, and ending between 1530 and 2000Who are these people you know who are working 80+ hour weeks?

scrum-treats · Answer

Believe Quora. Believe the news articles. Believe the current and former employees that post and comment on HackerNews. Here's some light reading:
"Amazon leaders are worried that a 'Day 2' mindset is seeping in at the company" [1]
"A top Amazon executive recently said he had 'no data' to support the company's return-to-office mandate, prompting criticism from frustrated employees"[2]
"Inside Amazon's little-known Slack channel for performance improvement: Leaked messages reveal anguish, despair, but also community"[3]
"I was a manager at Amazon. My boss encouraged me to quit after I defended a high-performing employee who was about to get the lowest performance rating."[4]
"Amazon employees are internally sharing mock leadership principles that make fun of the company's aggressive RTO policy: 'Disagree and comply'"[5]
"A bunch of Googlers who used to work at Amazon are internally sharing horror stories about their former employer's 'frupid' and aggressive culture"[6]
"'Stress, burnout, churn, and a cut-throat atmosphere': An internal Amazon study slams the company's culture."[7]
"'Frupidity' is a new word making the rounds inside Amazon, a combo of the company's 'frugality' leadership principle and 'stupidity'"[8]
"This leaked document shows exactly how Amazon managers evaluate employee performance and decide pay"[9]
"An Amazon manager told staff to collect donations if they wanted to keep buying cereal for their office"[10]
"The downside of life inside Amazon's cloud growth engine: ProServe employees describe a culture of bullying, derogatory remarks, and retaliation"[11]
[1]https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-leaders-aws-day-two-m...
[2]https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-employees-mock-leader...
[3]https://www.businessinsider.com/amazons-slack-channel-for-wo...
[4]https://www.businessinsider.com/former-amazon-corporate-mana...
[5]https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-employees-mock-leader...
[6]https://www.businessinsider.com/former-amazon-employees-who-...
[7]https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-earths-best-employer-...
[8]https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-employees-use-frupidi...
[9]https://www.businessinsider.com/leaked-document-shows-how-am...
[10]https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-manager-told-staff-to...
[11]https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-proserve-culture-inve...