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A good, if not great, place to work

Software Development Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Amazon for 2 years
August 6, 2012
Seattle, Washington
3.0
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros
  1. Opportunity to work with large-scale systems.
  2. Great for new grads to learn how service-oriented systems work.
  3. Work with smart people.
Cons
  1. Virtually no perk.
  2. Very stressful on-call/pager duty.
  3. Very bad criteria for qualifying for green card processing (applicable to H1B visa holders).
  4. Insignificant salary increment.
  5. Frugality actually means being cheap and providing employees with cheap and inadequate hardware.
Advice to Management

Please address the cons I specified above.

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