I'm a researcher. I have friends who've had research-y jobs at Amazon (I don't think they have a separate research division, like Google and unlike Microsoft/Ya

I'm a researcher. I have friends who've had research-y jobs at Amazon (I don't think they have a separate research division, like Google and unlike Microsoft/Yahoo.) I've heard uniformly negative opinions from them. It could be just that research is given short shrift, but it probably also reflects on the overall culture.