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Good place to work... if you're lucky

Software Development Engineer Intern
Former Employee
Worked at Amazon for 1 year
October 5, 2015
Seattle, Washington
3.0
RecommendsPositive OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Amazon is a great company. You get paid well. The work is interesting. Seattle office locations are pretty nice. A great launch pad for your career.

Cons

The quality of your intern experience depends on your mentor.

Almost any SDE2 can become a mentor, though many don't have the social skills to do so.

My mentor would barely speak to me. I thought everything was going great until the last week.

She even avoided coming in for work on my last day to avoid having to tell me that I didn't get a full-time offer.

Advice to Management

Have some kind of a bootcamp for intern mentors.

Set guidelines for how they should behave.

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