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Can you give more details. What position? Examples of stingy benefits? I've considered joining Amazon as an experienced SWE to get experience working on apps
by steve-atx-7600 4y ago
Can you give more details. What position? Examples of stingy benefits? I've considered joining Amazon as an experienced SWE to get experience working on apps with higher scaling needs. I'm thinking it could be worth putting up with some of the downsides I've heard about for awhile just to get this experience and move on.
- innocentoldguy 4y agoSure. They give you 8 paid holidays a year, their employee purchase program is basically a $100 gift card if you spend $1,000 on their website, but only on products they sell, their PTO benefit is very 1990s (accrued and limited), they subjectively apply their leadership principles (read arbitrarily beat you over the head with them), management is abusive, and their internal tools are jankey as hell. EDIT: Their sign on bonus is generous, so you’ll make a lot during your first two years, but after that your annual salary will drop significantly. Supposedly, their RSUs are supposed to make up for that, but they don’t.