Pros
I've been with Elemental as a software engineer for a while now (long before the acquisition). I'm mainly writing this review because I read the anti-Amazon reviews and was shocked. The company has well more than doubled in size since I started, and I was becoming really concerned about how process and structure were adapting (or not) to the company growing as quickly as it was. I have seen concrete improvements in process and team structure since the acquisition. I believe we would have gotten their eventually, but I think Amazon's experience as a large company helped us to adapt more quickly than we would have been able to on our own. There are a couple of things that are a little worse than they were before benefits wise (see cons), but overall, I feel better about the company now than I have in quite a while, and I think a large part of that has to do with the acquisition and other recent changes / process improvements.
Pros:
* interesting technology
* smart, hard working coworkers
* business development / sales side is really strong. It's nice that people actually buy the stuff we produce.
* great career growth potential
* REALLY good maternity / parental leave benefit
* 401K matching
* solid health / vision / dental plans
* company provided short term / long term disability insurance, as well as life insurance
* really fun company culture. Things like Friday lunch talks, employer funded meetup groups (for game nights, movies out, etc), frequent happy hours and parties for releases, a CEO who knows your name, education and conference reimbursement, engineering offsite trips
* the typical tech benefits: free massages, stocked kitchen, Stumptown cold brew on tap, beer, coffee tabs at two different shops, lots of (surprisingly nice) SWAG, etc
Cons
* sabbatical is no longer a "thing" now that we are Amazon (we did get paid out for accrued sabbatical time, which was nice)
* it would be nice to have a little more PTO
* you will work really hard here, and managers will have high expectations for your work. Not a work / life balance company so much (it has been this way as long as I've worked here)
