4.0
20 Oct 2014
Current employee, more than 1 year
Seattle, WA
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
- Great quality of work (esp. within AWS) - Surrounded by very smart engineers - Management is very receptive to ideas and feedback - Super customer obsessed - Strong company culture. People really believe in company's core values which makes for an inspired work environment - Highly data driven company - No politics BS
Cons
- Average pay and benefits. Amazon is lagging behind other companies in it's class (Facebook, Google, MS, etc.) - Slow promotions in some parts of the company - On call rotation can be bad at times (although it depends on the team).