Hi all. I'm looking for a AWS position on Amazon Brazil and, coming from MS, would love to know opinions about cultural differences, benefits, etc, specifically for subsidiaries, which tend to differ from those of Seattle/Redmond respectively. For ex. One of the things that worries me is that NYT article about AMZN: does it apply to subs and AWS? Is that piece still real? Thanks bunch
I work in AWS, and have worked in two different geographic offices, and I have never seen the things mentioned in those articles. My work, coworkers, and managers have been great
AWS is a better culture overall than Amazon’s consumer org, so you’ll have that going for you. Additionally, non-Seattle offices at Amazon tend to have an even better culture. So overall I think you’ll be fine
In what ways is it better?
The further you get from Bezos, the better it is. From what I've heard from people at the Munich office, it's paradise compared to Seattle.
It’s my experience that fairly large structural changes were made across Amazon as a whole as a result of the bad news articles and such. I work in EC2 and it’s quite comfortable with relatively little stress (won’t say there’s no stress).
How much low level programming do you do in the EC2 team?
There’s a good amount that goes into KaOS and other software that gets deployed to droplets during region buildout. A lot of the code that handles droplet ranking, rack diversity, etc. Also, droplet vetting after a droplet is returned by a customer.