For anyone considering going in-house at Amazon Forum

[Anonymous User]

I'm at Amazon. I hate it. I haven't worked a weekend since joining, but I do work BigLaw-ish hours at times for significantly less pay. I think your work life balance at Amazon is very dependent on what business lines you support--some lawyers have it made others not so much. If your team is in a high growth period, you will be working all the time. Or in my case, my team just needs a lot of hand holding so I'm basically a babysitter for newly minted MBAs.

For reference: I'm an ACC came in from a N5 V5 as a 3rd year. TC: $250k

Can you tell me more about the culture with the business conduct & investigations team + regulatory enforcement/litigation team?

[Anonymous User]

I'm at Amazon. I hate it. I haven't worked a weekend since joining, but I do work BigLaw-ish hours at times for significantly less pay. I think your work life balance at Amazon is very dependent on what business lines you support--some lawyers have it made others not so much. If your team is in a high growth period, you will be working all the time. Or in my case, my team just needs a lot of hand holding so I'm basically a babysitter for newly minted MBAs.

For reference: I'm an ACC came in from a N5 V5 as a 3rd year. TC: $250k

OP here. I have heard rumors about the good teams that are out there, but have never encountered them. Presumably they’re on the retail side, definitely not AWS.