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Good Growth, Some Bureaucracy

SDEII
Current Employee
Has worked at Amazon for 1 year
December 11, 2017
Vancouver, British Columbia
4.0
RecommendsNeutral OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros
  • Great environment
  • Good pay
  • Relaxed and enjoyable atmosphere
  • Challenging environment
  • Great opportunity to achieve your professional goals; you will be listened to regarding what you expect of it.
  • Amazing chance to learn and take courses
  • Great for relocation and traveling within the company
Cons
  • Sometimes the environment is slow.
  • Bureaucracy is usually there for chain-of-command situations, but that is to be expected in a company this huge.
  • SDEs get to write a lot of documents and not that much coding as you would expect (this is not a con for me particularly, but I think it may be useful for some other devs).
  • Most of the tools are internal and won't be helpful if you have to move to another job.
  • On-call rotation for every SDE.
Advice to Management
  • Keep doing, but try not to lose sight.

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