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It was ok

Software Development Engineer II
Former Employee
Worked at Amazon for 2 years
September 30, 2014
Seattle, Washington
3.0
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros
  1. You may be working on really cool projects.
Cons
  1. You may get stuck with a really boring project for a long time.
  2. Many junior devs in some orgs.
  3. SDE2 role is too wide (recent new grads who got promoted and people with more than 8 years of industry experience).
  4. Really hard to get promotion from SDE2 to SDE3.
  5. Cheap hardware.
  6. Stock vesting schedule is quite unfair.
  7. No cash bonuses for performance, additional stock bonuses no earlier than after 1 year of employment.
  8. No free lunches or basic snacks.

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