3.0
30 Apr 2015
Current employee, more than 3 years
Seattle, WA
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
* Initially competitive pay for college grads * A well known company
Cons
* long hours * very political review/promotion process * essentially any code you write (even outside of work) is owned by Amazon * uses open source, does not contribute to open source * a lot of bureaucracy * very little engineer autonomy, your roadmap is set (and constantly changed) by VPs and PMs who are making decisions based on what, politically, is best for their careers