There are MANY better places to work in Seattle!!
Pros
- Free Orca pass - Free medical and dental - Mostly amazing people at the individual contributor level - Seattle's Best Coffee drip offered in kitchen, near water coolers - Located in the heart of downtown Seattle - Work-life balance (you work your 40 hours and high tail it out of there) - Can easily float and collect a paycheck
Cons
The stuff everyone else has mentioned: - Low pay in comparison to Seattle tech market (~$30-50K under base pay for software developers, interns have been paid $12.50/hr for past 7 years) - Men have to dress up in shirt and tie OR suit (more lax for women, but business professional expectation) - $1,500 max 401K match - No parking - Only start with 2 weeks vacation + use it or lose it policy (no carry over whatsoever) - No flex time or work from home option - Old technologies (still trying to migrate out of applications written in COBOL) - Red tape everywhere - More frugal than Amazon The important stuff that needs to be fixed before any changes to the above stuff will ever make a difference: - Most (not all) tech management is full of people who are incompetent or inexperienced in tech who rose to power due to favoritism, cronyism, and nepotism - Due to above, most (not all) managers have a chip on their shoulder and are intimidated by young, educated, ambitious, and talented employees - The voice of good managers are surpressed and their growth is limited to middle management - No HR = a world of concern for biased management practices, employee dissatisfaction, ineffective recruitment, and inconsistent/unequal salary - Industry is evolving and the company is unwilling to change (will be interesting to see what happens to Expeditors once a more Uber-style logistics model starts taking off OR if Amazon gets serious about it's entry as an NVOCC and does what it does best... grows to scale) - Won't invest in employees in fear that they'll leave... which ironically causes them to leave...
