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The left hand doesn’t know what the right one does

Software Development Engineer III
Former Employee
Worked at Amazon for 2 years
October 3, 2014
Seattle, Washington
3.0
RecommendsPositive OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros
  • Interesting problems to work on.
  • No red tape, everything is moving fast.
  • First-class facilities.
  • Leadership committed to building software.
  • Review process considers input from everyone.
  • Compensation.
  • Being able to make a quick impact.
Cons
  • Too much freedom given to middle management. If your boss is not very experienced, your team will suffer.
  • Struggling to implement uniform company culture across the company; it all looks good on paper but not in reality.
  • Lack of diversity with certain teams attracting mostly Indian IT employees.
  • No life balance caused by poor management and unrealistic workload expectations.
  • Serious growing pains.
Advice to Management

Hire more experienced management.

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