I ' m really hoping that this is still the case , because this final requirement is giving me fits . Getting 20 kills in one round wouldn ' t be so rough , if everyone and their brother didn ' t play the Scout class and immediately head into the hills every single game . Tracking down all of those bushwookies is very time consuming . <| sep |> Thank you for the kind words ! I assume you ' re referring to the infamous NY Times article . To be honest that scared me off of them , too , and I ended up actually playing pretty hard to get but they were very persistent and in the end I signed . I ' ve also seen a number of rebuttals to that article from insiders like Tim Bray . Those are worth a look . My direct experience with Amazon is very limited as I ' m pretty new there , but here are some things I can tell youAmazon loves and values its engineers , and they show it . We are held to extremely high standards , and as part of that we are trusted and empowered to do things right , to think big , and to change things that need changing . We ' re not just allowed to , it ' s expected of us . I meet a lot of people that have been there a long time . Amazon employees are free to move about within the company at any time . This exposes management problems where employees are leaking . On Wednesday my boss ordered us to leave early ahead of the holiday , warning that he didn ' t want to be chasing us out of the building . Amazon is a massive company . Massive . I suspect there could be pockets where things like what that article talked about may have happened , but I have not seen anything to corroborate it and I don ' t know anyone else who has . There is almost unlimited opportunity within the company that we are encouraged to pursue , and all in all I really feel like they take excellent care of us . Hope that helps and again I should be very clear that I do not speak for the company , only myself .