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Software Development Engineer I Intern
Former Employee
Worked at Amazon for 1 year
January 22, 2015
Seattle, Washington
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Pros

Internships: You work with highly competent people. They do good work and are willing to help you learn.

Location: Seattle is beautiful with entertainment aplenty. Amazon and interns organize plenty of events as well.

Pay: is good

Cons

Culture is results-oriented, so if you can do your work in 6 hours, then awesome. If you're barely keeping up at 11 hours a day, you might need to up that to 12.

It's somewhat overwhelming to self-indoctrinate the leadership principles, be highly effective at them, and also complete a project on time.

Mentors have their own stuff to handle. They may be extremely helpful, they may be busy with their own projects, or they might be inaccessible. Don't be surprised to encounter all three.

Advice to Management

Make sure mentors are available all throughout the internship and don't have too much on their own plate (i.e., mission-critical projects that they're a key stakeholder on).

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