[PherricOxide]

I work as an SDEII in marketplace, where I've been nearly two years. I also work in a satellite office (Arizona), so maybe that biases things, but I've never seen the environment that the Times article discusses. I work 40 hour weeks, never work weekends (besides oncall weeks), have had nothing but positive reinforcement from my managers, and get to work on software where my lines of code impact millions of people. I think at a company this big there are bound to be good managers and bad ones, and the Times article only points out the bad.

[cerulean]

I'm an SDEI in Seattle (also marketplace), and I have a similar experience to yours. While marketplace does have a reputation as one of the tougher orgs at Amazon, I get the sense that a lot of these horror stories are coming out of retail, where there's always been more pressure, especially from the senior leadership at the company.

[deskamess]

Curious... do you get paid for on call week/weekend? Other AMZN'ers free to answer as well.

[senderista]

Are you American? Of course you don't get paid extra!