Bad Management - Fire Phone Fiasco - Engineering Program Manager bei Amazon Lab126: Mitarbeiterbewertung

1.0
3. Juni 2015
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Pros

It was a nice company when I joined in early 2011 - they were still at the Cupertino offices. The Kindle teams were focused on executing and e-readers/tablet products. Cameraderie was good and everyone was very helpful...until....

Kontras

All I can say is the Fire Phone organization completely ruined a once-promising hardware division for Amazon. Their arrogance during the development phase of the project (which by the way took almost 3+ years of development) was legendary. After the fire phone went down in flames they still kept that arrogance. Then upper management did the dumbest thing and did a re-org which gave the Fire phone team the keys to Lab - the Kindle product line (the crown jewel). Suffice it to say, that team started to install their middle management into stronger positions and the mass exodus of strong employees have continued since October 2014.

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5.0
12. Juni 2026
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Pros

amazing culture, really supportive, mostly healthy competition

Kontras

less career growth in comparison to aws people

3.0
28. Feb. 2026
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Pros

Strong engineering talent and technically capable peers. Historically offered opportunities to work on large-scale consumer devices with real production impact. Ownership culture at the team level — engineers are often trusted to drive complex cross-layer initiatives. Good exposure to platform systems, device-to-cloud integration, and large fleet operations.

Kontras

Over the past few years, frequent leadership changes and repeated organizational reorgs created uncertainty in long-term technical direction. Compared to earlier years, there are fewer net-new greenfield initiatives, with more focus on sustaining and maintaining legacy programs. Shifting priorities and evolving reporting structures can make roadmap continuity and long-term architectural planning more challenging.

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