4.0
Jul 20, 2008
Current employee
Seattle, WA
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
Amazon is a very innovative company with never a dull moment at work. Management greatly encourages new ideas/technology, given that you can get some free time off your operational load (see below). The company has some of the smartest people around and provides awesome learning and career growth opportunities. If you ever wonder what does it take to keep a large scale distributed system working where the customer never even realizes the machinery behind amazon.com, you need to come work at Amazon. Great place to work at, learn some new stuff and have fun while doing it. Amazon totally rocks!
Cons
Operational load messes up your regular development work. Be prepared to live with chaos.