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Excellent place to work with great starting pay, with slightly too much demand for your personal time

Software Development Engineering
Former Employee
Worked at Amazon for less than 1 year
August 20, 2008
Seattle, Washington
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Pros

Amazon provides excellent starting salaries to interns and recent college grads. The benefits and moving packages are excellent, and they help you get settled in. The atmosphere is comfortable. While you are only one person in a large company, you will find it easy to meet others, and they do a good job of helping you feel like part of the team.

Cons

The excellent starting pay may not increase as much as you would like it to after working there for a while.

If your team is small, expect to be on call a lot. When you are on call, expect there to be a lot of problems and little sleep.

Advice to Management

Rather than run your employees ragged by requiring too many hours, why not just hire a few more and keep everybody fresh and able to produce higher quality stuff with fewer problems. Everybody wins!

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