4.0
17 May 2016
Current employee, more than 1 year
Seattle, WA
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
Money. Amazon makes a lot of it. Base pay, signing bonus, second year bonus, RSUs. Depending on the part of the company you're in, they can be quite respectful in work-life balance.
Cons
Feeling like a cog in a giant machine. If you like big companies, go for it! Being pushed to other levels without clear expectations. Uninteresting work. For me that's building Ruby on Rails webpages and Java services hooked up to DynamoDB. Stingy on the holidays (but 15-20 days vacation)