Pros
Lots of new grads with lots of energy. Being able to say you work with robotic software, hardware, and analytics is cool. Having worked at AR opens doors at other companies.
Kontras
Amazon Robotics has adopted Amazon’s extremely Seattle-centric perspective: decisions need to go through people in Seattle. Scarce leadership and management training doesn’t provide the young front-line managers with the tools they need to effectively manage the very young employees. Like the management style, tech development is often seat-of-the-pants, with people using intuition instead of sound algorithm, software or engineering principles. While this could all lead to a fun, dynamic environment in a smaller place without cross-country oversight from a large corporation, AR has grown to the point that the resulting employee churn and lack of opportunities is making it stagnate.