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

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

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 ). [/quote]

Try to negotiate more RSU's.  It really depends on your boss - he or she makes a huge difference in your experience.  My spouse is happy there.  Take it, please, they need more staff..  We find it really flexible as he can work at home some days, no one really cares his hours along as the work gets done.  Ask about travel. There is a lot more travel than he was told but he's learn to say no to what isn't important. They have some conferences in good places which is nice.  [/quote]

Are you mid career or have kids? How does that fit your lifestyle? Do you both work? [/quote]

He works, I do not.  He's later career and its actually one of the more flexible jobs. He comes and goes as he pleases as he can take calls driving to work or at home if needed.  If we are sick, he can work at home and take care of us.  He usually tries to go in early/leave early to help take kids to activities.  If I was still working, Amazon is far more flexible than my old job would have been. He has canceled trips as he/we were sick and it was fine.  He has a really flexible boss so that makes a huge difference.   The travel is fine as long as its once a month.  We've gone to some of the better places like FL and Vegas and had great time.  They have no issues with families going and sometimes encourage it if it is a conference.  If you are in sales/business, those guys are traveling constantly so it really depends on your position. They had a great take your kids to work day last school year.  My kid had a blast.  They don't try to keep people so if you choose to leave, they usually say fine but if you leave on good terms you can go back.  I haven't heard of anyone fired, maybe sales guys who don't meet quotas.

The negative for us is the max salary. He had to take a pay cut and we don't cash out the RSU's given how stock is going so that's a minor issue as we pay the RSU's out of income vs.  cashing them out as you have to pay taxes each time it vests (either come up with the cash or cash out the RSU's).

The other negative is the long commute.

It really depends on the supervisor.  My husband is happy there.[/quote]

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