2.0
Nov 23, 2008
Former employee
Seattle, WA
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
Good place to learn about e-commerce. Seattle is a great city, and Amazon near the core rather than stuck out in the suburbs. Great coworkers. Amazon.com looks great on a resume. You get to roll-your-own engineering much of the time.
Cons
Bad place to learn about software engineering. Amazon.com is a Rube Goldberg machine that sells books (and other stuff). Many SEs spend more time in support than development. Management quality is very uneven. Everyone else also gets to roll-their-own engineering. The dynamics of the resume system mean you are most likely to be hired by a group with high turnover.