I'm going to Seattle next week for interviews with Amazon. I don't know which team as it's a recruiting event. I am trying to motivate myself to prepare but every post on here about Amazon is negative. Are there any advantages to working there? (Example : tough it out for 1 year then you have a lot more opportunities to go to a better company). Please share positive reasons to work there. For my part, i have applied because i live in a small town and have very few career choices locally. I'm not super thrilled about relocating but i hope that it's an investment into my future and that I'll have access to learning and other better companies in Seattle.
Better than 99% of companies. Literally.
Better how?
Compensation, location, prestige. People on blind rave about F and G and N, but the realism is that those who work there are a very small percentage of all the engineers looking/working. That includes amazon
Looks good on the resume after a year or so
You'll learn a lot more at Amazon than working at some no-name tier 5 company near your small town.
Good career move
Iāve learned a ton and worked with really smart people in AWS
Leadership principles , not only useful at work, but also useful in life
True that! My friend, an Amazon employee, was on a date recently when she said at the end, āLetās split the checkā and he responded with, āF*ck you! Need to be frugal so that I donāt wander away from the leadership principles!ā and just walked away. She understood.
Clearly ābias for actionā is not one of his fortesš
Dunno about the rest of Amazon, but AWS has some really smart people. I've learned a LOT here (although I am a new grad hire).
Tons of resources and courses internally that you can leverage to improve your technical skill
They value customer service, whereas google just doesnāt give a crap. So as a customer, Iāll always go with amazon if they have similar offerings.
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