1.0
15 Feb 2023
Good for the cash bonus, but after leave. No raises / refreshers.
Current employee, more than 5 years
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
Not really much. If you get lucky you can work on backend stuff that works at huge scalability, which is good experience for going to another company. But most of the software stitching together most of Amazon is pretty terrible. We don't work backwards from a business / customer usecase. We set a hyper-aggressive date, ship a minimal, uncomplete product to customers, then you fib metrics to make up-your-chain look better.
Cons
Discrimination of protected classes / characteristics is rampant here. I've seen H1B managers prefer engineers of country of origin and manage out capable engineers w/ Greencard or citizenship who refused to not slave away. I've also been discriminated within this company for having a leg injury.