5.0
20 Jul 2009
Anonymous employee
Current employee
Seattle, WA
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
Amazon.com is a great place to be a software developer. You work with some of the smartest minds in the industry, you work on challenging problems, and your code will be periodically exposed to customers. The internally developed tools at Amazon.com make this an even greater pleasure. Furthermore, the compensation is good, the benefits are good, you can work from home at reasonable intervals, and hours are flexible (in that you can basically work whenever you want, within reason.)
Cons
You will be on-call one week out of ever 6-9 weeks. During this time, it may or may not be possible for you to be paged at night (depending on your team.) Also, the emphasis on "frugality" can get annoying.