Amazon reviews

* Recruiting leadership at the executive level is non-existent. There are a number of peers and no one on the "leadership team" is having the tough discussions about how to build a scalable recruiting org. They openly dislike each other so the opportunity to build a world class recruiting org is lost. The solution continues to be "hire more recruiters" rather than build a flexible, scalable org with the right recruiters and leadership. * Recruiting leadership at the business level is poor. There's favoritism, lack of transparency, lack of strategic direction, no investment in the development of current team members, plus avoidance of conflict and lack of pushing back on the business. In Retail recruiting, morale is worse than it has been in years. * HR does not value recruiting. * Retention is terrible and you won't be able to develop and get promoted without a strong manager being supportive of your promotion. So you're basically screwed. * There is an absolutely enormous amount of duplicate work because of the poor org structure. * There is an absolutely enormous amount of internal competition (and by competition I mean fighting) over candidates -- tech recruiting is the worst and if you are a tech recruiter your career will be ruined working here. * You have to work in three ATS programs that don't integrate well (this is the most manually administrative job I've had in my entire15 year career). This is the worst reporting I've seen in my career. For a metrics-driven company, everything has to be done manually. Crazy. * In appropriate/unethical things go on but there is no where to turn because upon starting you are told that "HR for HR" is terrible and not to trust them with anything. Wait? You're in an HR function and you're told not to trust your HR person? Disgraceful, yet true. So sad.

1. Very bad work life balance, and the company is more than ok with hiring employees and just burning them out, " they can always be replaced" is the mantra, and thus work life balance is out the door. 2.Comp is ok for Seattle, but poor industry-wide, as they trick you with stock grants, thus you don't make the money unless you stay for 4-5 years, if you get a promotion, you will see a small base salary increase, and stock grants (which you will not see for 1-2 years) Thus, they promote you, have you work even harder for 1-2 years, just so you can get the money your promotion came with 2 years earlier....really underhanded of them as a company. 3. Recruiting at amazon is hard, and some of the recruiting managers are great, others are down-right just mean people. The buisness is fun to work with, but usually you don't have enough resources to do right by them as the turn-over in the company drives high hiring volume- which you will never fully get ahead of due the poor quality of life all around in the company. As a recruiter you will work a lot, and for the pay its not worth it.