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Pros and Cons

Software Development Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Amazon for 4 years
August 30, 2019
Cambridge, Massachusetts
3.0
RecommendsPositive OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Brilliant coworkers, lots of existing infrastructure, and opportunities for interesting work on problems of scale. Leadership principles give a mostly positive culture of accountability. Compensation and career development is good, not great.

Cons

On-call; lots of busy work; aggressive deadlines with pressure to meet them; lots of reorgs; constant shifts in priorities; red tape and occasional politics; leadership principles can be misused; on-call. Did I mention on-call?

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