Can people who work at Amazon/AWS shed light on the benefits, specifically:
Health insurance
401K
PTO
Other perks
I know there is a lot of hate, but I need some serious answers!
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- health insurance is okay. Below par as compared to other fang companies. No fertility benefits etc.
- 401k 2% match which vest after 3 years. Yes you read it right, after 3 years you will get peanuts.
- 15 days of PTO. You don't get additional PTO if you work on weekends. You don't get additional pay for additional hours you put during your on-call.
- no Amazon prime nothing
- no free H1B premium processing
- they don't apply for green card unless you are SDE2
- you get free bananas but only in one building so you will have to go to that building to get 1 free banana
- no free food. AWS used to have lunch meetings where you had to bring your own food.
- no free or subsided food.
+ Free bananas
+ some AWS team might have their own free chips and drinks.
+ Free milk and cheap coffee
+ Free Tylenol
You also get $50 towards your cell phone monthly and a tiny stipend for wfh equipment.
Insurance premiums aren't covered for any plans. It's subsidized pretty heavily, but not entirely covered.
I think it was 3 weeks PTO, and it accrues slowly each paycheck. It's also weirdly split up between a floating personal day, "vacation" time, and some other bucket I forget what they call it. Basically it's 3 weeks in total, but because of the weird buckets they classify it as you can only roll over about a week of it year over year.
The 401k is through fidelity and the match is peanuts and has slow vesting. They do support the mega backdoor roth 401k though which is nice.
There's really nothing else to speak of. The Amazon discount is so small it's almost insulting. $100 annually but only as you spend $1,000 at Amazon. You can get reimbursed for a few things if you work from home but nothing actually impactful. They're stingy about equipment even. I think the official policy is your workstation has to be 4 years old to even be considered for an upgrade.
Honestly once I started tracking my time off at Amazon I couldn’t even spend it as fast as I was accumulating it. The first year or two I didn’t even track it though and managers didn’t care. One year I took a 3 week trip to Europe, plus two weeks during the holidays, like a day off each month, and a bunch of other random couple of days off through the year. Still ended up having like 40 hours total accumulated after all that.
- up to 2% match of base with 3y vesting
- up to 90% base access to megabackdoor roth
for pto:
state depending but generally 15 d/y (vary on tenure) + 3d/y if ca with cap of 240h
for others, from top of my head
- 100$ for amazon.com annually
- 50% off on certifications and many other training partnerships
- some hardware discount and benefit site with million "deals" on garbage mostly
- personal aws account
- 500$ for monitor and 50$/mo internet reimbursement
secondary it allows you to reach 61k IRS limit