- Work-life balance is a crapshoot, though generally skewed towards the work side; the high turnover is indicative of how stressful life at Amazon can be
- Office politics can make life miserable; because Amazon is made up of lots of small teams (two-pizza rule), you need to have a boss that has your back, otherwise you will get screwed
- Because the company is engineering driven, a lot of the processes are manual (as other reviewers point out). This means that you will find yourself doing obscure SQL queries and making giant spreadsheets that don't add value--but are a part of the job. This makes some of the more interesting analysis-focused jobs more about cleansing metrics instead of analyzing them