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Most teams require some on-call time every month or two. That's a big factor for me—I value my sleep.

Additionally, last time I interviewed there they did not have remote work in any form. If you get a 2am page, you have to drive in to the office. (And you have to commute.)

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How on earth does that make sense? Amazon has data centers all over the world - why would working on a 2am page be any more efficient at the "office at location A" (corporate) versus the "office at location B" (home).

It doesn't make sense to me either. I believe at the time they said something about having a strict network access policy, forbidding access from home.

That's deeply not true for at least 10 years. Amazon has worldwide coverage for oncall rotations, and VPN for access from home or anywhere with a cell connection

This is no longer true. We have laptops, a VPN, a cellular hotspot, and a privacy screen.

The second part is not true in my experience at all.

This would have been in 2012 or 2013. Perhaps lack of remote work was specific to that team.

There used to be - unsure if now - some very specific teams (like 2-3 in the whole company) that had to drive in for very specific issues. Basically if you need to get inside the cage in the datacenter where there are credit card numbers.

Amazon generally has a pretty strong remote work culture - I can even get my ipad onto the VPN and SSH around to get my work done.

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