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Senior Software Development Manager

Senior Software Development Manager
Former Employee
Worked at Amazon for 4 years
October 2, 2018
Seattle, Washington
4.0
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Pros

Amazon is a great company to work for. You will be able to change the world and constantly work on cutting-edge technology, building great systems that are important to customers.

Cons

The operational load can be quite high.

AWS believes fully in DevOps, which is generally great, but comes with the downside of periodically working long days and even nights when there are operational events.

Advice to Management

Aggressively work to fight operational load. I know management does this, but sometimes loses focus compared to developing features and new capabilities needed by customers. While we generally want to be doing new, cool features, when operational tickets are frequently firing, it impacts people's personal lives.

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