The panelists all agreed that Bezos’ demanding attitude and “maniacal focus on the right answer” have helped the company grow to a $150 billion business whose stock continues to surge despite posting losses in several quarters.

But there’s no denying it — the man is hardly the dream boss.Dave Selinger, now CEO of RichRelevance, a San Francisco-based big data startup, recalled many nights of drinking with his roommates (also Amazon employees) after a terrible day at work.

“I would go home and throw stuff. One of my roommates was on a team where 20 people were doing the work of 300 engineers. We were all always on pager duty,” Selinger said. “But as I reflect on it, the problems we were tackling ended up having real value. We weren’t trying to solve things that obviously didn’t matter.”

All the panelists reminisced about the moment they each received their first “escalation e-mail”, in which Bezos would forward a customer complaint or question with simply a question mark — no message.

I worked atNokiafull-time for more than a year

Pros–Seniors are very friendly and knowledge able.
Intelligent students joined along with me when i was hired
Seniors give good career guidance which is realistic and practical.
Work life balance is good if a person prefers not to come in limelight.

Cons–Managers are bigots,inexperienced and dictators.
Compensation is very low after 1 yr working for them when compared to industry standards.For freshers it is average.
Employees are treated as slaves in this team.
No team outings.

Advice to Senior Management–This project is a total chaos which has no value in the future.

Google offers a ton of freedom, and there's minimal oversight.

Seriously, you can pretty much do whatever you want, as long as you get your work done.

But you also don't get a lot of guidance on how to do your work. So if you aren't very self-driven, it can be difficult to ship your projects on time.

Pay is good—for engineers. Software engineers make more than $100,000 on average, according to Glassdoor postings.

But startups are trying to steal engineers away from Google, and while they can't always match pay, they can offer more upside in their stock packages.

And if you're not an engineer, chances are your pay package won't be nearly as competitive.

Every single social media option that we brought them to help improve the visibility and to amplify the project was shut down by Yahoo!

Every. F*-ing. One.