Great pay but a top-down culture with red tape
Great pay but a top-down culture with red tape
There was great pay and equity, benefits, and some very bright people. It was easy to move around internally as long as you had good ratings. You will learn an immeasurable amount.
The culture is very top-down. There is a lot of red tape to cut through just to make simple fixes, such as checking if we have capacity in the sprint, if there is a design doc, and if the whole team can review it. Every layer of management, including PMs, is trying to build their own empire. Individual contributors often get caught up helping with empire-building rather than doing work that actually makes the products better. It can be very frustrating.
Amazon missed having a frontier LLM with Alexa. They should not miss the opportunity they have to be a frontier robotics company.
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