Amazon reviews

Operations or "on-call" - which is split between in hours and out of hours sucks it's the worst kind of operations, you can only compare it to the chinese/indian sweatshops in which kids work for a dollar for the entire week. They expect you to be "on-call" during the week form 6h to 18h (with 20min response time to tickets and less than that for conference calls), which entails that you are tethered to a high speed internet connection (so you have to stay at home) and only if you are engaged for more then 4h you are entitled to half a day off, which you have to take within next two weeks. For morning on-call (6-10AM)) you don't get anything except that now you should get to work by 12h instead of 10h. Daily on-call is plagued by constant pages and working the ticket queue, after which I sometimes think that dying is not that bad Working hours - they expect you to work 10-18h, which totally sucks IMHO, so you can have meetings with the US teams which in turn want them to start at 18h so you end up staying even more then the expected, but usually expect to be working from 9h to 18:30h at least. Work/life balance totally sucks, once my manager told me I should do something after work hours, i politely declined now he just gives me more work and there is no chance I can do it during office hours Frugality - it gets annoying after some time that the company is not willing to provide for anything, even some of the coffe machines were purchased by the employees, while on the other hand other companies provide lots of stuff Internal tools - suck and are over engineered and a nightmare to work with Location - Kilmainham Square is a shit-hole of Dublin.

I worked at Amazon for over 5 years. I put in on avg about 60 hours per week, which is typical for most employees. Work/life balance doesn't exist and you are expected to be available at all hours of the day. I got a call from my boss at 2am once (everything is a fire drill). I would be more understanding if they instilled a sense of appreciation for their employees, but they don't. Lots of work with very little praise. You get tons of criticism though. It's also a very political environment due to their "Top Grading" process. They have to let go 10% of their employees annually and managers are often forced to down grade reviews to meet this curve (this is literally a company goal that all SVPs are held accountable to). I've seen it happen multiple times with out just cause. They've relocated people from all over the world and then a year later fired them. Very little respect for people and their families. I know I sound like a bitter employee, but I'm really not (I actually left on very good terms). I just want people to know what they are getting themselves into before they do it. If you are thinking about relocating for this company, don't do it. It's too risky (especially if you have a family).