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Everybody cares about promotion only

SDEII
Current Employee
Has worked at Amazon for 4 years
August 18, 2020
Berlin, Germany
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

None, stay away from this company.

Cons

Everybody is pushy and aggressive and cares about promotion only.

A lot of over-engineered code, just because somebody had to promote.

One of the metrics for promotion is the number of comments on pull requests. This blows in the face of SDEs, of course, because you'll have random questions on your pull requests, some of them not related to the current PR.

Highly disappointed about the quality of projects I found here.

Management is encouraging this type of behavior.

Advice to Management

Set the right metrics for what a good SDE means.

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