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Luxury Oncall, Outdated Tech

Software Development Engineer III
Current Employee
Has worked at Amazon for 1 year
October 5, 2018
Dublin, Dublin
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Hard to find any pros.

Cons

Outdated technology.

Self-developed local technology.

Hides behind customer focus to push quick and dirty solutions.

No agile process at all.

Super individualistic.

No real investment in improving the codebase.

On-call rotations of 12 hours, including nights.

The company hires talented people to just set up a luxury on-call unit.

Ops work overload.

Management makes decisions on technical aspects.

Advice to Management

Stop lying during recruitment sessions and focus on quality. Less features but more quality should be your unique value.

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