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Innovative But Poor Management

Principal Solution Architect
Current Employee
Has worked at Amazon for 6 years
June 9, 2018
2.0
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Pros

A lot of innovation opportunities exist in many different aspects of IT, including networking, security, storage, databases, big data, streaming, and machine learning.

The stock price was growing very well in the last few years.

Cons

AWS is growing so quickly that they started to hire “professional” managers and give people who should never manage, the opportunity to manage people.

If you fall into the hands of one of these poor managers, you have no chance to be a builder and enjoy your work.

Very few promotions, and it’s difficult to continue growing after four years.

Advice to Management

Even when the company is big, it is still a company of people. If you lose your best people (and I see many experienced people leaving), you lose your best assets.

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