2.0
2 Sept 2008
Current employee
Seattle, WA
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
You work with some really good people, you work on large scale problems and you can learn a lot about distributed systems. There's a lot of good automated infrastructure to help you get your job done.
Cons
There's a definite work-life balance conflict. Standard practice seems to lean toward over-hiring for positions with duties inappropriate for backgrounds. Infrastructure isn't complete - while there's great infrastructure for build/deploy the complications of the systems causes lots of development down-time and a lot of home-grown in-team solutions. Given the high requirements on individual teams, the amount of team-to-team sharing is pretty small.