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Great Team, Terrible Balance

Software Development Engineer II
Current Employee
Has worked at Amazon for 1 year
September 29, 2015
Los Angeles, California
4.0
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Pros

The development team is great, nice, friendly, and helpful.

Access to all environments; very automated, nearly stress-free deployments.

Cons

Work-life balance is non-existent. The more you work, the less well you likely do. The team is so good, it's difficult to even be in the top 50%. If you aren't, it's not a very welcoming feeling (totally stupid, but that is the culture).

Advice to Management

Try to keep good people. Don't let the review process drive people away; it's a huge waste of talent, and all you get in return are new people relearning the same things as the ones that left.

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