4.0
6 Jun 2017
Current employee, more than 1 year
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
Note, experiences at Amazon vary lot depending on the team you're in. I've worked for the Relational Database Service team for 2+ years. - gain experience building a service that manages hundreds of thousands of database instances (lots of challenges at "Amazon scale") - gain experience working with other AWServices. - opportunities to get your hands dirty on low level database engine code. - medium operational burden -No hard deadlines. The focus is always on building a quality product.
Cons
- The usual; stingy on perks. E.g. far from free food, sometimes there are no decent food options. - Social/team activities are rare. But again, some teams/locations are better at this than others.