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I really love working at Amazon (AWS)

Senior Solutions Architect
Current Employee
Has worked at Amazon for 2 years
February 16, 2018
Austin, Texas
5.0
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Pros

Low BS ratio. I am surrounded by smart and friendly people. Most of my co-workers are pretty happy in their jobs, which makes them generally happy.

The 14 Principles of a Leader are great guidelines. One of those is to "Have a backbone, disagree and commit," which basically means if stuff is being done wrong, you are within your rights to stand up for your position and engage the other parties to come to a consensus that you can all commit to. This is great for problem resolution in the workplace.

Stock options are actually worth something. It is generally easy to move around the organization once you are employed, and your current manager cannot stop you from moving to another team.

Cons

Except for salary, benefits are okay but not premium.

Advice to Management

Keep it up. It's the best company I've ever worked for.

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