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From an SDE intern: Great experience, great company values, well managed and organized, but... frugal

Software Developer
Former Employee
Worked at Amazon for 1 year
February 17, 2014
Seattle, Washington
5.0
RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros
  • Awesome, intelligent, curious, chill people.
  • Great management; the company is well-organized and streamlined.
  • The company is really product and customer-centric; they care about what they do.
  • Nice campus.
Cons
  • They are very frugal and thus don't give away cool employee benefits, e.g., no free Amazon Prime.
Advice to Management

Give perks (in lieu of pay, if you must). People will like it.

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