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Network Development Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Amazon for 1 year
October 23, 2017
Dublin, Leinster
4.0
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Pros

Top of the game technology. The size of the infrastructure is gigantic. Learning is a 24x7x365 experience. Easy lateral movement between teams. A lot of possibilities for career development. Great overall corporate culture that really sparks the best of you. Huge amount of great talent to work with: you always feel refreshed and humbled by the amount of knowledge and experience that all your colleagues have. The company will keep on growing on an unbelievable scale for 10 or more years.

Cons

All the PROs are 100% tied to the department/sector you work for. This can change a lot between departments, but not between internal teams.

Compensation includes company stocks that can only be vested 2 years later.

Initial compensation is tied to a sign-in bonus for 2 years. After those 2 years, if you fail to get promoted, you'll be stuck with a lower overall compensation.

Frugality, while a very good leadership principle to guide the daily decisions of the company, also leads to fewer benefits for the employees.

No overtime is paid for a lot of different teams.

The whiteboard interview process can be a bit traumatic, and there are better ways to assess the knowledge and experience of candidates, but that's an OK experience overall.

Advice to Management

Relocation should be completely reviewed, bottom to top. The experience for someone coming from a different continent can be VERY different from someone already here. Also, family should be seriously taken into consideration and treated differently from those that are single or married without kids. The amount of work and things to do is completely different across those three scenarios. Why treat each as the same?

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