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Been reading a lot of Amazon articles the past few weeks. I'll be joining AWS next month as an SA. I met the hiring manager during the interview loop, and he seems like a cool guy. Funny thing is when I told my family and friends that I'll be joining AWS they all emailed me the NYT expose.

Well I do hope it's not as bad as it's portrayed. I do want to see my son grow up (he is turning 2 years old).

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May I ask why you are planning to join Amazon? It's reputation for being a bad employer is well-established and known in the tech community.

If you're skilled enough to get through an Amazon interview loop, you could also get a job at a company which actually respects its employees (Facebook, Google, even Microsoft).

I love the AWS platform, I find the entire thing very elegant. I wanted to move away from software development and get into more high level stuff (hence the SA role), and I'd rather join a company where am passionate about their products.

I have friends working in AWS, and so far none of them have been complaining about work life balance, so am assuming that it's different from the retail side.

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