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

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Anonymous wrote:DOD sales for AWS. $400k, and yes, the job can feel like its taking over your life. Stock grant that was initially 100K is now worth 400K. RSU's do take absurdly long to vest, but 401k growing like wildfire as they grant stock as part of their company match.

So you now receive an annual stock grant of $400k? or you mean the $100k stock grant you received when you joined has quadrupled in value?

Is there really consensus that AMZN will continue its torrid appreciation? It's P/E ratio is like 500 -- it barely eeks out a profit b/c it is always reinvesting, not sure if investors will always value that.

That. We are judiciously profit taking now to balance out our portfolio. That said, yes, I do believe that it will continue its torrid appreciation, with some corrections along the way of course.

Are you the DW or DH in sales? How did you get into IT sales? I am in tech side and want to transition, but DH wary of riskier income.

Also, you say it consumes your life but you WAH and golf? How bad is it for family life? If I start on tech side, what kind of pay and work-life do your engineers get?

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I was contact about a legal job at AWS a while back. Happy in my current position but curious what legal jobs are like there

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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

cool story, bro.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:DOD sales for AWS. $400k, and yes, the job can feel like its taking over your life. Stock grant that was initially 100K is now worth 400K. RSU's do take absurdly long to vest, but 401k growing like wildfire as they grant stock as part of their company match.

Did you transition to sales from engineering or were you always in sales?

Always sales. Have a team of engineers.

Sales person here. Lets clear up the term "engineer ". I too have a team of "engineers" they are sales engineers, so not real engineers. They are basically overlays with a deeper technical understanding and better social skills and much better physical and verbal presentation than real engineers. Quite a few of them can and do transition into Account Manager roles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DOD sales for AWS. $400k, and yes, the job can feel like its taking over your life. Stock grant that was initially 100K is now worth 400K. RSU's do take absurdly long to vest, but 401k growing like wildfire as they grant stock as part of their company match.

Did you transition to sales from engineering or were you always in sales?

Always sales. Have a team of engineers.

Sales person here. Lets clear up the term "engineer ". I too have a team of "engineers" they are sales engineers, so not real engineers. They are basically overlays with a deeper technical understanding and better social skills and much better physical and verbal presentation than real engineers. Quite a few of them can and do transition into Account Manager roles.

I'm sorry- do you work at AWS? If not no one cares.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DOD sales for AWS. $400k, and yes, the job can feel like its taking over your life. Stock grant that was initially 100K is now worth 400K. RSU's do take absurdly long to vest, but 401k growing like wildfire as they grant stock as part of their company match.

So you now receive an annual stock grant of $400k? or you mean the $100k stock grant you received when you joined has quadrupled in value?

Is there really consensus that AMZN will continue its torrid appreciation? It's P/E ratio is like 500 -- it barely eeks out a profit b/c it is always reinvesting, not sure if investors will always value that.

That. We are judiciously profit taking now to balance out our portfolio. That said, yes, I do believe that it will continue its torrid appreciation, with some corrections along the way of course.

Are you the DW or DH in sales? How did you get into IT sales? I am in tech side and want to transition, but DH wary of riskier income.

Also, you say it consumes your life but you WAH and golf? How bad is it for family life? If I start on tech side, what kind of pay and work-life do your engineers get?

I don't talk with engineers about their salary. Ever.,

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DOD sales for AWS. $400k, and yes, the job can feel like its taking over your life. Stock grant that was initially 100K is now worth 400K. RSU's do take absurdly long to vest, but 401k growing like wildfire as they grant stock as part of their company match.

So you now receive an annual stock grant of $400k? or you mean the $100k stock grant you received when you joined has quadrupled in value?

Is there really consensus that AMZN will continue its torrid appreciation? It's P/E ratio is like 500 -- it barely eeks out a profit b/c it is always reinvesting, not sure if investors will always value that.

That. We are judiciously profit taking now to balance out our portfolio. That said, yes, I do believe that it will continue its torrid appreciation, with some corrections along the way of course.

Are you the DW or DH in sales? How did you get into IT sales? I am in tech side and want to transition, but DH wary of riskier income.

Also, you say it consumes your life but you WAH and golf? How bad is it for family life? If I start on tech side, what kind of pay and work-life do your engineers get?

I don't talk with engineers about their salary. Ever.,

I can see that being contentious since your pay far exceeds theirs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DOD sales for AWS. $400k, and yes, the job can feel like its taking over your life. Stock grant that was initially 100K is now worth 400K. RSU's do take absurdly long to vest, but 401k growing like wildfire as they grant stock as part of their company match.

Did you transition to sales from engineering or were you always in sales?

Always sales. Have a team of engineers.

Sales person here. Lets clear up the term "engineer ". I too have a team of "engineers" they are sales engineers, so not real engineers. They are basically overlays with a deeper technical understanding and better social skills and much better physical and verbal presentation than real engineers. Quite a few of them can and do transition into Account Manager roles.

I'm sorry- do you work at AWS? If not no one cares.

NP, but i just showed this thread to my DH who is a federal DM over at AWS and he said this is 100% correct. Nothing is being engineered by sales engineers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DOD sales for AWS. $400k, and yes, the job can feel like its taking over your life. Stock grant that was initially 100K is now worth 400K. RSU's do take absurdly long to vest, but 401k growing like wildfire as they grant stock as part of their company match.

Did you transition to sales from engineering or were you always in sales?

Always sales. Have a team of engineers.

Sales person here. Lets clear up the term "engineer ". I too have a team of "engineers" they are sales engineers, so not real engineers. They are basically overlays with a deeper technical understanding and better social skills and much better physical and verbal presentation than real engineers. Quite a few of them can and do transition into Account Manager roles.

I'm sorry- do you work at AWS? If not no one cares.

NP, but i just showed this thread to my DH who is a federal DM over at AWS and he said this is 100% correct. Nothing is being engineered by sales engineers.

How often can line engineers transition to staff engineers since being account manager would ultimately be far more lucrative?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DOD sales for AWS. $400k, and yes, the job can feel like its taking over your life. Stock grant that was initially 100K is now worth 400K. RSU's do take absurdly long to vest, but 401k growing like wildfire as they grant stock as part of their company match.

Did you transition to sales from engineering or were you always in sales?

Always sales. Have a team of engineers.

Sales person here. Lets clear up the term "engineer ". I too have a team of "engineers" they are sales engineers, so not real engineers. They are basically overlays with a deeper technical understanding and better social skills and much better physical and verbal presentation than real engineers. Quite a few of them can and do transition into Account Manager roles.

This is correct. My husband is a sales engineer. It sounds like there is a lot of opportunity at Amazon if you stick with it. Most are engineers - developers, testers, program management before going to Amazon and go to Amazon for a change and challenge as its newer technology. Many of the engineers we are told only stay 1-2 years and either move on within Amazon or to other companies using AWS depending on who is paying more.

[Anonymous]

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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

cool story, bro.

My husband transitioned from a very different style employment and its been a nice culture shock. He can work at home some and a lot of flexibility. It is a different mentality as you are there to make money/profit but why is that a bad thing? Most of his co-workers have been there several years and all happy with Amazon. We haven't seen any negatives so far except its been a lot of travel (a lot being relative as he's never traveled for work), but he could probably say no if he wanted to. My husband had flexibility at his old job but Amazon is far far better. This person has no idea what they are talking about.

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

Interview questions are asinine. They are looking for their 'profile'. Maybe they think they are hiring smart people, but it seems like they are looking for drones.

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My brother works there in management. Crazy hours, no work life balance, and constantly threatened you're going to be fired.

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Anonymous wrote:My brother works there in management. Crazy hours, no work life balance, and constantly threatened you're going to be fired.

Two posts up seems so different? One says flexible and results orientated, the other says sweatshop. Are these all Herndon?

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Anonymous wrote:My brother works there in management. Crazy hours, no work life balance, and constantly threatened you're going to be fired.

Two posts up seems so different? One says flexible and results orientated, the other says sweatshop. Are these all Herndon?

Got an offer for DoD contract at AWS, engineer position. Is it still this brutal? It seems pretty chill when I visited, and herndon is a nice area (I’m coming from Florida working at a Harris sub ).