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Amazon.com

Based in Seattle, Washington, Amazon was one of the first major companies to sell goods by Internet, and was an iconic "stock in which to invest" of the late 1990s dot-com bubble. After the collapse, the public became skeptical about Amazon's business model, although it has since remained profitable. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com, Inc. in 1994, and launched it online in 1995. Amazon.com started as an on-line bookstore, but soon diversified to product lines of VHS, DVD, music CDs, MP3 format, computer software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, etc. Amazon has established separate websites in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, China, and Japan.

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"Don't hate the job but don't love it"
Good intern experience.
Amazon.com / SDE Intern / Seattle
September 29, 2008 by huey
Back in 2005, I was excited about the Web and I thought working at large Web shop like Amazon.com would be fun. I also wanted to try living in Seattle for a summer to see what it'd be like to live further away from my family.

Anyway, I found it satisfying to work on projects that... Read more
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7 points votes of this review vote
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"Don't hate the job but don't love it"
Decentralized structure: sometimes great, sometimes bad
Amazon.com / Software Development Engineer / Seatle, WA
July 31, 2008 by vincentR
The problems that you try to solve at Amazon are all state-of-the-art: software problems like scaling a huge distributed systems, artificial intelligence, personalized recommendations, web analytics and data mining, etc. All the skills I learned from Amazon are on great demand by the software... Read more
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12 points votes of this review vote
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"Just here for the paycheck"
No respect at Amazon
Amazon.com
May 31, 2008 by vaibha
Software engineers are not treated well. At the bottom of the huge hierarchy at Amazon, engineers have to work long hours to catch ridiculous deadlines and do everything including operation and user support. Regardless of the workload we already have, managers must say yes to all requests from... Read more
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32 points votes of this review vote
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"Best job in life"
Intern at Amazon!
Amazon.com / Seattle, WA
May 28, 2008 by voberoi
I had an *awesome* time interning at Amazon.com.

Pros:
- Interns tend to get meaty projects. Mine was incredibly fun and interesting.
- My coworkers were all very smart people.
- The pay is great.
- Seattle is a fantastic city, and if you live in corporate housing you get tons of... Read more
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61 points votes of this review vote
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"Just here for the paycheck"
Burnt-out at Amazon
Amazon.com / Seattle, WA
May 25, 2008 by wyliee3
Contrary to what they said when offering you a job, 50 hours a week is normal and during busy season it can get to 70 hours or more. They expect people to be very "customer centric" and not to take time off to be with family (!). In view of this the salary isn't particularly good;... Read more
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31 points votes of this review vote
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