Pluspunten
Amazon Robotics is a example of how to buy patents to prevent competitors from being able to use new technology and how to use open source software internally without distributing it to avoid sharing work. No Kiva Systems technology can be used by anyone outside of Amazon any more, except for some old customers who are stuck with old hardware no longer being manufactured. As a result, Amazon got a big advantage over other ecommerce companys. You can read more fluff by management and/or human relations about how great it is to work for Amazon Robotics on this site under their old name Kiva Systems. (Amazon hassles people who are paid to write reviews of books and post them to the Amazon web site. It is said that Amazon Robotics has employees do it on this site as part of their job.)
Minpunten
They have a holiday party in February because they are too busy working from sometime in October to sometime in January for the peak retail season. (They do not understand the words work life balance.) The benefits year starts April 1 which can make it difficult to line it up with the IRS tax year or a partner's benefits year. Everyone is terrified of being ranked too low and being put into a Performance Improvement Plan which is just a slow torture way to fire someone. If you have health problems or personal issues that take any time to deal with you might as well start looking for another job. You get to work with great technology, but you won't be able to tell anybody about it. Nobody will see it except if it is used as part of marketing in the media right before the holiday shopping season. There is no career advancement for technical work, only for support and management. They fired one of the two highest rated software people because he moved to a state where Amazon does not collect sales tax. (The other one quit when the founder quit.)