3.0
20 May 2015
Former employee, more than 3 years
Seattle, WA
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
The engineers are among the world's best Your work has a visible impact Ultra customer-centric; everything you do has a direct impact on customers
Cons
Work-life balance varies widely between teams. If you're on the right team, it can be fine. On many teams, you can end up working long hours. The Dev-Ops model means that you'll carry a pager (typically on rotation with other team members) and get paged in to deal with any operational issues. In practice, the impact of this varies by team, but on some teams, you can expect to be paged multiple times a day, including overnight. Amazon is a very frugal company. This can also mean 'cheap'. They don't do much of anything in the way of employee perks.