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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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[/quote]

cool story, bro. [/quote]

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.  [/quote]

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