Work life balance and Amazon ... sounds a bit ironic, but having worked there for a year, if you're at Amazon or thinking about working at Amazon, I want to leave you with one big, massive piece of advice - if you don't know how to say "no", Amazon isn't the place for you.
What do I mean by this? Amazon has an infinite amount of work they will gladly load you up with - on-call duty, maintaining legacy stuff and doing new projects.
If you don't know how to carve out your boundaries, you're going to be in a world of hurt at Amazon, get demoralized very quickly and either get axed after a bad review (like me) or you're going to quit or worse, stay miserable and go gray before your time.
Another tidbit of advice my boss - who also no longer is there - gave me, is you have to be a dick to succeed at Amazon.
I'll just leave you with that before you choose to surrender to the cult of Bezos.
What do I mean by this? Amazon has an infinite amount of work they will gladly load you up with - on-call duty, maintaining legacy stuff and doing new projects.
If you don't know how to carve out your boundaries, you're going to be in a world of hurt at Amazon, get demoralized very quickly and either get axed after a bad review (like me) or you're going to quit or worse, stay miserable and go gray before your time.
Another tidbit of advice my boss - who also no longer is there - gave me, is you have to be a dick to succeed at Amazon.
I'll just leave you with that before you choose to surrender to the cult of Bezos.