What's the company culture at Amazon.com?

Every business has it's own style. What is the office environment and culture like at Amazon.com?

Are people dressed in business casual, jeans and t-shirts, or full-on suits? Do folks get together for Friday happy hours and friendly get-togethers?

What is a typical day in the life of an employee at Amazon.com?

You can usually tell when someone from outside the company visits...they're the one's in suits. The dress attire is casual to business casual. It can be a friendly environment and one does build relationships that isn't all about work. Depending upon which group you are in will determine whether there are Friday happy hours and get together's. Not unlike any other office environment.

You can expected a lot of hard work and the occasional long day. Everyone is an "owner" of the company so you learn to develop the work ethics in order to make the business thrive.

I enjoyed working there and the friends I made are invaluable. It is not a static company, you should expect big changes and quick one's at that. Definitely an experience!

I'm interested in a tech writer position in Amazon's Web Services group. Do you know what that group is like?

Thanks.

Amazon.com fulfillment center has the most inhumane working conditions I have ever experienced in my life. Long hours, low wages. We walk 4 minutes to be able to sit down for 7 minutes to turn around and walk 4 minutes back to our work location. That means we work 5 and a half hours with a 7 minute break. There is no air circulating in what was described as "air-conditioned" when we took the job. The managers don't care about anything but bodies performing manual labor. Period! Oh, and bodies that don't get hurt because they don't want law suits. Not because they care about human beings, they just don't want law suits. The people I work with want jobs but they don't want to be treated like animals. Amazon.com treats people like animals.

Pam Bruce in Phoenix, Arizona said: Amazon.com fulfillment center has the most inhumane working conditions I have ever experienced in my life. Long hours, low wages. We walk 4 minutes to be able to sit down for 7 minutes to turn around and walk 4 minutes back to our work location. That means we work 5 and a half hours with a 7 minute break. There is no air circulating in what was described as "air-conditioned" when we took the job. The managers don't care about anything but bodies performing manual labor. Period! Oh, and bodies that don't get hurt because they don't want law suits. Not because they care about human beings, they just don't want law suits. The people I work with want jobs but they don't want to be treated like animals. Amazon.com treats people like animals.

I can only speak to Fulfillment Center because that's where I worked for 2 years. The culture is MORE of "dog eating dog" (backstabing each other in the attempt to outdo each other) and LESS of team-oriented. Having said that, I don't want to discourage anybody from applying to work there. Some people might strive in such a competitive atmosphere, relishing the fact they might be fired any day for no reason whatsover. We have had two managers get fired in the past several months due to "bad performance." The culture is very data-driven and CONSTANT change is a daily mantra there.

Host said: Every business has it's own style. What is the office environment and culture like at Amazon.com?

Are people dressed in business casual, jeans and t-shirts, or full-on suits? Do folks get together for Friday happy hours and friendly get-togethers?

What is a typical day in the life of an employee at Amazon.com?

I can only speak to Fulfillment Center because that's where I worked. I know that Corporate office culture in Seattle is quite different where they bring in dogs to work, etc. Dress code at the FC is very casual, consisting of jeans and t-shirt. Typical day for FC managers starts about 30 to 60 minutes prior to work, where they get their pre-shift work done (meaning, allocate associates based on the work available in the system). They do stand-up with their associates, talking about daily expectations and afterwards review associates' work throughout the day. After the shift is over, managers stay about 30-60 minutes to complete the post-shift report. In short, manager's typical day shift is from 6:30am - 7pm. There are no fun activities for managers or associates to mention of. Just a daily grind.