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Software Design Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Amazon for less than 1 year
April 17, 2009
3.0
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Pros

Learn about scaling and customer obsession.

A good work environment for junior engineers, there is a lot to learn within Amazon.

Open culture for engineers to learn and exchange.

The best place to be to understand retail, and yet has some very interesting teams.

Cons

Long hours, little fun. Too frugal. Engineers operate in silos. You barely know the people in the next office. If you are in a service that requires inter-operation with other teams, you have a tough time. It's very hard to get roadmaps aligned, and it requires frequent iteration. The usual answer you can expect is, "We don't have this on the roadmap for this year."

Advice to Management

Create opportunities for fun time.

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