[FmrAMZN_TA]

I'm a former Amazonian. Since you asked my opinion, I'll give it.

It's a truly horrible place to work and I would never ask my worst enemy to go work there. Engenders the worst in humanity (people review, anyone?), terrible technical architecture, many systems based solely on tribal knowledge that leaves the door every day, comp structure that is nearly outright lying... I could go on.

Some people say that it was just the group I worked in but I worked in retail (1 year), new businesses (1 year) and AWS (1.5 years). There's virtually no difference. I still have PTSD (or at least what feels like PTSD) about by 3.5 years there, and I'd give anything to get that time back.

BTW, I'm now at another 20k+ person company which is doing very well, and making 30% more than my total comp when I was there.

[Pyxl101]

You wrote the following in a previous comment:

> I am a former Amazon employee. I worked there for exactly a year. I assume I was doing well, I was offered increase bonus and base after my initial year. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10413966

Just to clarify, did you work at Amazon for 1 year or 3.5 years? It seems like these messages are contradictory, but perhaps I've misunderstood. In the message I'm replying to now, you wrote:

> I worked in retail (1 year), new businesses (1 year) and AWS (1.5 years)

[FmrAMZN_TA]

I admit, I lied in the previous comment.

In the previous comment, I was worried that people would know who I was if I had said where I worked (what groups and how long). The truth is I had worked in the group I moved to for exactly a year, but I had been at Amazon for 3.5 years.

The level of retribution at that company is substantial, and I was quiet worried they would hurt my ability to get a new job.

I have a nice new job now (I was still searching when I posted that), and am less worried. It's really not hard to figure out who people are on HN.