4.0
18 Mar 2014
Current employee, more than 3 years
Seattle, WA
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
Smart people, good managers, very good customer focus which drives all business decisions and helps to innovate. Many good development tools which remove burden. However, since Amazon is big, this hugely varies between different departments and teams so be careful where you go.
Cons
Like in any big company, most technologies and tools are internal and make the experience hardly applicable anywhere else. Cheap and sluggish developer workstations (forget SSDs). Strict policies around personal projects even remotely competitive to Amazon business(es).