4.0
Apr 26, 2010
Current employee
Seattle, WA
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
You're surrounded by very smart people and work/projects that are technically challenging and interesting. Amazon seems like just a website to most but the technology in place behind the scenes is very fascinating. Highly distributed systems built to scale at massive levels.
Cons
No real perks besides a bus pass but that's made up with competitive compensation. You work A LOT and the pager duty can be a real pain sometimes. Then again, by working a lot I'm learning a lot so its really how you perceive it. Wish the remote development offices had more interesting work (my opinion), sometimes I could use a break from the Seattle weather