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Software Development Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Amazon for 2 years
November 20, 2018
London, England
4.0
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Pros

Ambitious organisation and peers. Smart and kind colleagues. Wealth of training, learning resources, and learning experiences. Interesting engineering culture, very customer-centric.

Cons

Lots of tech debt.

Not much autonomy at the team level to address issues.

Very waterfall. Requirements gather slowly. The product lifecycle needs slimming down.

On-call experience was pretty taxing on personal life at times.

Advice to Management

A part of customer obsession is empowering your employees to obsess over customers. Obsess over what makes it difficult to do their jobs and what makes the good ones leave.

Keep focusing on the hiring bar: quality > quantity.

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