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Software Development Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Amazon for 2 years
December 15, 2019
San Francisco, California
2.0
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Pros
  1. The culture is quite different from Company in the Bay Area.

  2. You will get a lot of severe engineering problems to solve; a colossal codebase is waiting for you to work on.

  3. Learn how to manage things well, document things, and execute ideas step by step.

  4. Be able to utilize leadership as a weapon in your daily work. Have a backbone.

  5. Performance is based on how closely you communicate/work with your manager, not on diffs, impact, or project execution.

Cons
  1. High engineer turnover rate
  2. Micromanagement
Advice to Management

Please give fair performance reviews based on peer feedback, not solely on direct manager input.

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