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Software Development Engineer II

SDE-II
Former Employee
Worked at Amazon for 1 year
October 20, 2018
Vancouver, British Columbia
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

The products are earning money.

Cons

Bad people, high-pressure workload, and the environment is bad. No beverage, no food, only coffee.

The on-call is horrible; sometimes you are woken up in the middle of the night to deal with tickets.

Management is bad. The managers like to use PIPs to threaten the developers, thus pressuring them to work.

This is a cold place. The average staying period is 11 months, and people flow very quickly.

The leadership principles are like brainwashing. People like to use LPs to speak to each other and set obstacles for other team members to show their self-values.

Advice to Management

Management is bad; the managers like to use PIP to threaten the developers, so that they can press them to work.

I have seen a lot of bad managers across Amazon. They have the power to PIP an SDE, so they can do whatever they want to SDEs.

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