Ask HN: Perks at Amazon US
What are the employee perks at AMAZON US? A friend got invited for a day of on-site interviews. Anything she should negotiate upfront?
Other perks include bread toasters if you're a SDE, ping-pong tables if you're in things like legal, and if you're unfortunate enough to deal with oracle there may even be snacks offered (only in a restricted area, obviously).
Your friend should negotiate very hard on salary, and perhaps even more importantly the level (assuming she's not straight from college). Most developers don't care much about titles and don't care if they're coming in as a SDE 1, 2 or 3 but Amazon makes a big deal about it. Being an SDE 1 will mean you can get shafted on everything from worse hardware specs (wtf?) and less hardware (e.g. SDE1's need to buy their own extra external monitors if they want one) and there's a lot less opportunities and discression until you get promoted which can be difficult
BTW, i think it is one of these positions she is being interviewed for...
https://us-amazon.icims.com/jobs/445219/sr.-industrial-engin...
https://us-amazon.icims.com/jobs/442313/operations-industria...
Any personal experiences specific to these locations/jobs? I checked out these Amazon jobs on Glassdoor but found only salary ranges, but no review comments.
Are there women in this field? Any unwritten expectations at the job she needs to be aware of?...