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Best company yet

Front End Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Amazon for 4 years
September 23, 2017
Seattle, Washington
5.0
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Pros
  • Amazing coworkers.
  • Managers have to be developers first, so they understand tech issues.
  • As much responsibility as you want, with lots of trust. You can interview, do architecture documents, propose new technologies – the world is your oyster.
  • Work from home friendly (not 100%, depends on the manager, but I do about once a week).
  • Bring my dog to work!
  • Offices all over the world if you're interested in transferring to work abroad.
  • Compensation and stock bonus is great.
Cons
  • Not really a con for me, but you are expected to be able to manage yourself and speak up for yourself.

With the immense freedom you are given, it comes with the responsibility of knowing your limits and not relying on others to tell you what to do.

It's great for me, but I've seen some that would be a lot less stressed out at a normal company with a normal chain of power.

Advice to Management

Keep up the culture of trust and don't become a top-down company, like so many others that are terrible to work at.

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