09-14-2017, 11:31 PM
(09-14-2017, 11:28 AM)Markster Wrote:(09-14-2017, 10:57 AM)plam Wrote: Warehouses are different from the white collar work at Amazon. Amazon is trying to replace workers by robots in the warehouses at least. Working in tech at Amazon is a somewhat different story. Amazon is one of the major employers of UWaterloo's SE and CS grads.
I have a lot of friends who used to work for Amazon, in white collar coding jobs. They pretty much universally said that the job was grueling. They were extremely well paid, but the emotional cost was not worth it.
This was generally ~4 years ago, so it's plausible that the company culture has changed since then.
Yes. However, I'm not sure that Google, Microsoft, and Facebook are that different in that respect. Work/life balance can be hard to find in these jobs.