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If you don't mind me asking, which state is this in? It sounds intriguing.
Baja California Sur :)
Thanks!
Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefinitely
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Anecdotal sure, but I joined earlier this year and am absolutely loving it so far. Fantastic pay, great manager, interesting impactful work, and more than enough flexibility on the personal side. I specifically chose a team based on my perception of the manager, and that decision has paid off so far. Amazon is a huge company and experiences can vary dramatically. Imagine if 20 public state schools, 50,000 students ea…
> Anecdotal sure, but I joined earlier this year "Joined"? What is it, a club?
English is not my first language but I think joined is a common term to say when you start a new job at a new company. "I joined Google recently" or "I joined the team at X" seems like common terms I hear...
Re: Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefinitely
#563Is Amazon really such a bad employer? I've just started process with them now. I dont want to work for Facebook, there is no local Netflix and I'm probably not good enough for Google - Amazon is the only FANG company I'm realistically going to get.
I am currently a software engineer at Amazon. I obviously can't speak to other people's experiences at Amazon.
And having never worked at any other big tech company, I'm not in a place to compare to them. But my own experiences at Amazon have been pretty good. I've been quite happy with my compensation and work life balance, which all have improved since my previous roles mostly at start-ups. There have been some stressful crunch times (Q4 tends to be stressful, between Thanksgiving-Christmas peak on the Retail side and Re:invent on the AWS side), but not more stressful from other big milestones at previous companies.
I have been lucky, in that I had worked with my first team's director at a previous company and so I knew he was a good boss, and I had known the manager for my second team prior to joining. It's important as part of the interview process (at Amazon, or anywhere else) to treat the interview as a two-way process, as you're vetting the company, the team, and your boss as much as they're vetting you, and if you don't get all your questions answered as part of the interview (interviewers are supposed to save time for you to ask questions!), feel free to relay them to your recruiter.
Re: Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefinitely
#564Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Anecdotal sure, but I joined earlier this year "Joined"? What is it, a club?
English is not my first language but I think joined is a common term to say when you start a new job at a new company. "I joined Google recently" or "I joined the team at X" seems like common terms I hear...
Seems to be a rather recent development; looks very much like youngsters falling for tech-bro propaganda-like language usage. If they can make you think of it as sometihng you "join", a "community" or something, they can exploit you more easily than if you think of it as a straight-up business relationship: You sell your labour, they buy it.