Anyone work at Amazon in VA? What's it really like?

[Anonymous]

Here's an example of the 24/7 expectations: during a recent adult league hockey game, phone starts buzzing wildly and, teammate who works for AWS gets up off the bench in full pads/skates. Took off skates and walked out to parking lot still in full hockey pads and jersey. If you have kids who play hockey, you can imagine how ridiculous it looks when an adult does it. We found him in his car, after the game, still logged on to his laptop, still wearing all his hockey gear. He didn't have time to even explain to anyone what the emergency was.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's an example of the 24/7 expectations: during a recent adult league hockey game, phone starts buzzing wildly and, teammate who works for AWS gets up off the bench in full pads/skates. Took off skates and walked out to parking lot still in full hockey pads and jersey. If you have kids who play hockey, you can imagine how ridiculous it looks when an adult does it. We found him in his car, after the game, still logged on to his laptop, still wearing all his hockey gear. He didn't have time to even explain to anyone what the emergency was.

Boss probably needed some figures. Told Hockey Guy not to spend all night on it, but Boss needs the figures by tomorrow AM.

[Anonymous]

look at glassdoor, the reviews are awful for AWS.

as for amazon in general NYT did an in depth article last year, drove Bezos crazy. Sounds like typical tech company

In interviews, 40-year-old men were convinced Amazon would replace them with 30-year-olds who could put in more hours, and 30-year-olds were sure that the company preferred to hire 20-somethings who would outwork them. After Max Shipley, a father of two young children, left this spring, he wondered if Amazon would “bring in college kids who have fewer commitments, who are single, who have more time to focus on work.” Mr. Shipley is 25.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-wrestling-big-ideas-in-a-bruising-workplace.html

[Anonymous]

I'm in IT and had an opportunity to work at AWS 4 years ago. I would be rich right now had i taken the job. The options would have been life changing. At the time, i had a 2yr old and 5yr old. Frankly, i didn't want their early lives to be a blur that i couldn't remember due to the long hours and stress i would have had to endure as a trade off. My values simply cannot align with the kind of company Amazon is. I get it, some people are OK having their spouse be the primary for their kids and basically functioning as a PT weekend parent and FT ATM machine. That's not in line with the kind of parent i want to be and the childhood i want for my kids. I wish Amazon had come along before i had a family, but i know i made the best choice. I now work in a ROWE and have the best balance that i could have ever dreamed of.

I personally thinknof you are a government worker and switch to Amazon, you will be in the biggest culture shock of your life. I can only imagine a fraction of government workers could survive at Amazon. The mentality is so much differe t

[Anonymous]

Is it only the Tech positions that have this pressure? Are the administrative staff and others also on edge in Herndon?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm in IT and had an opportunity to work at AWS 4 years ago. I would be rich right now had i taken the job. The options would have been life changing. At the time, i had a 2yr old and 5yr old. Frankly, i didn't want their early lives to be a blur that i couldn't remember due to the long hours and stress i would have had to endure as a trade off. My values simply cannot align with the kind of company Amazon is. I get it, some people are OK having their spouse be the primary for their kids and basically functioning as a PT weekend parent and FT ATM machine. That's not in line with the kind of parent i want to be and the childhood i want for my kids. I wish Amazon had come along before i had a family, but i know i made the best choice. I now work in a ROWE and have the best balance that i could have ever dreamed of.

I personally thinknof you are a government worker and switch to Amazon, you will be in the biggest culture shock of your life. I can only imagine a fraction of government workers could survive at Amazon. The mentality is so much differe t

I don't know, I work in satellite operations and the derivation to mission and 24/7 response doesn't sound that different.

How much money did you leave on the table? And you hear the rumors of folks being fired before vesting.. is that real?

[Anonymous]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-wrestling-big-ideas-in-a-bruising-workplace.html?_r=0

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-wrestling-big-ideas-in-a-bruising-workplace.html?_r=0

This is a hatchet job. No first hand experience from someone maybe went from defense contracting to aws ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-wrestling-big-ideas-in-a-bruising-workplace.html?_r=0

This is a hatchet job. No first hand experience from someone maybe went from defense contracting to aws ?

Wow. Bezos posts to dcum!!!!!!

[Anonymous]

HAd an interview there earlier this year, tough interview questions. I heard the pay is bombbbb

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:HAd an interview there earlier this year, tough interview questions. I heard the pay is bombbbb

If the paybis high, then your RSUs are shit. Normally the pay is low with high RSUs. Ans obviously the big bucks are in the stocks.

Im a poster that declined a few years ago. I'd have well into 7 figures in stocks today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:HAd an interview there earlier this year, tough interview questions. I heard the pay is bombbbb

If the paybis high, then your RSUs are shit. Normally the pay is low with high RSUs. Ans obviously the big bucks are in the stocks.

Im a poster that declined a few years ago. I'd have well into 7 figures in stocks today.

Were you a devops engineer or higher level management like a director or something?

Do you think folks can actually make it to vesting?

What are bombbb salaries?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:HAd an interview there earlier this year, tough interview questions. I heard the pay is bombbbb

If the paybis high, then your RSUs are shit. Normally the pay is low with high RSUs. Ans obviously the big bucks are in the stocks.

Im a poster that declined a few years ago. I'd have well into 7 figures in stocks today.

I negotiated extra stock and faster vesting to offset the ridiculous non compete. AWS Herndon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:HAd an interview there earlier this year, tough interview questions. I heard the pay is bombbbb

If the paybis high, then your RSUs are shit. Normally the pay is low with high RSUs. Ans obviously the big bucks are in the stocks.

Im a poster that declined a few years ago. I'd have well into 7 figures in stocks today.

I negotiated extra stock and faster vesting to offset the ridiculous non compete. AWS Herndon.

Is this a devops position or management? How sure would you have been that you would not be cut early?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:HAd an interview there earlier this year, tough interview questions. I heard the pay is bombbbb

If the paybis high, then your RSUs are shit. Normally the pay is low with high RSUs. Ans obviously the big bucks are in the stocks.

Im a poster that declined a few years ago. I'd have well into 7 figures in stocks today.

I negotiated extra stock and faster vesting to offset the ridiculous non compete. AWS Herndon.

My family member said the non-compete was insane, basically barred you from working in any even tangentially related field forever. He called an attorney from his training, attorney said to sign it, basically unenforceable.