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Software Development Engineer I
Former Employee
Worked at Amazon for less than 1 year
May 17, 2017
Bengaluru, Karnataka
3.0
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Good entertainment. You will be forced to think big and innovate beyond your limits. You will be pushed to grow as a leader throughout your tenure. Limitless potential to make change. Relentlessly high standards. Take any number of leaves when you feel like. Work from home whenever you want. Come to office when it suits you, leave when you feel like, as long as you make sure you deliver results.

Cons

Teams at Amazon are very, very independent. So much so that some of them might as well be in a separate company for all intents and purposes (some of them technically are). So there's bound to be bad teams and good teams.

In the good teams (which I believe would be most of them), the high standards and expectations push you to transform yourself into an extremely well-rounded Leader+Engineer.

Advice to Management

For Bangalore:

The bar for L6 Managers needs to be raised. Engineers often leave for Seattle when they become SDE2. Many go because they know their L6 would probably not be as effective at helping them grow to an SDE3 level.

Give proper training in personal finance management to all employees. Most don't know the basics about taxation and investments.

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