Pros
- Flexible working hours. - Great opportunity to get close to the Amazon resources for continual learning and improvement. - Managers sponsor doing interesting projects involving cutting-edge technology. - Managers spend time mentoring and helping individuals to build resumes as well as set long-term career goals. - SVP does a great job nourishing a transparent, productive, cooperative working environment within the team. - Free lunch. Compensation for gym & commute. - Commuting is great if you live close to the city. No kidding, because of reverse commuting you always have 3 seats on the train, every day. The company is really close to the train station, so you never get yourself exposed to the Newark streets. - Free lifelong Audible membership.
Cons
- 401K match greatly lags peer companies. - Research rigor is often discouraged either for politics reasons or for the purpose of rapid progress. - It is frustrating to see people do very poor research and yet never get stopped for (1) lacking peer-review system; (2) politics reasons. - Cooperation between teams involve politics and is not transparent. - Some managers like micro-management and show-off expertise which they really don't have. As a result, poor decisions are made.
