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Software Development Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Amazon for 2 years
July 11, 2019
Cambridge, England
5.0
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Pros

You will learn a lot. Amazon employees are some of the world's experts in distributed systems, building reliable services and programming best practices. The company's culture to insist on the highest standards means you will learn about these subjects, which are extremely useful in the field.

Cons

There is a lot of turnover. People come here to improve their CV and learn, then go somewhere else.

You will have to own your development in the company by chasing opportunities and going for them, because nobody will do that for you. There is a good chance you will change several managers in your time here.

You will be on-call, meaning one week every now and then you will have to be reachable and able to respond to outages.

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