AWS Benefits

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shoshnebut

New IT

shoshnebut
Jan 8 64 Comments

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!

TC: $155K

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TOP 64 Comments
  • Google
    aKUz60

    Go to company page Google

    aKUz60
    Worked in AWS for 4 years.

    - 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
    Jan 8 20
    • EY
      believeiny

      Go to company page EY

      BIO
      icareaboutmylifeasmuchastc
      believeiny
      Writing tons of meaningless documents , adding 100s of people to rip it and then mulling months to act on it is classic definition of day 1.
      Jan 9
    • New / IT
      shoshnebut

      New IT

      shoshnebut
      OP
      I’d be remote so I have low expectations of perks you know
      Jan 9
  • Google
    Cococococo

    Go to company page Google

    PRE
    Amazon
    Cococococo
    Reading this gives me so much pride of not working at Amazon
    Jan 8 10
  • Amazon
    leibo

    Go to company page Amazon

    leibo
    https://www.amazon.jobs/en/landing_pages/benefitsoverview-us

    You also get $50 towards your cell phone monthly and a tiny stipend for wfh equipment.
    Jan 8 9
    • Amazon
      ouiwqa

      Go to company page Amazon

      ouiwqa
      Yeah I imagine you would
      Jan 8
    • New
      rPbP03

      New

      rPbP03
      Shit. Thanks for reminding me. FYI to people watching, you have to remember to expense this every month. it's not included in your paycheck.
      Feb 22
  • Amazon
    jee883u

    Go to company page Amazon

    jee883u
    The benefits are lackluster, not bad in general, but definitely not in par with the rest of FAANG.

    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.
    Jan 8 4
    • New / IT
      shoshnebut

      New IT

      shoshnebut
      OP
      Oh, would be nice for sick to be separate from that 3-4 weeks.
      Jan 8
    • Apple
      dnsb253wvs

      Go to company page Apple

      dnsb253wvs
      Yeah, Amazon just treats PTO and sick days the same even though they are bucketed / accumulate separately. Apple is more strict where sick days should only be for when you’re sick and if you take 5 consecutive sick days you need a doctors note.

      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.
      Jan 8
  • Amazon / Eng
    not amazon

    Go to company page Amazon Eng

    not amazon
    for 401k and RA:
    - 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
    Jan 9 3
    • Amazon / Eng
      not amazon

      Go to company page Amazon Eng

      not amazon
      you are disqualified if you make >130k which is higher than lowest band of L4 at amzn

      secondary it allows you to reach 61k IRS limit
      Jan 9
    • New / IT
      shoshnebut

      New IT

      shoshnebut
      OP
      Ahh I see. Thanks!
      Jan 9