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The AWS manager said.

Software Development Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Amazon for less than 1 year
April 26, 2012
Seattle, Washington
2.0
Doesn't RecommendNo CEO Opinion
Pros

There are great engineers all over the company.

And the older divisions, like retail and supply chain, are reasonably paced and supported.

Cons

AWS was horrible. When I told a manager I was working harder than I'd ever worked, he replied, "Well, I don't want you to work 80 hours a week." And I thought, great, your threshold for overwork is 20 hours past mine.

Also, the pay really isn't great. When I left, my salary went up at least 10% and my time working dropped 20%.

Advice to Management

Hire some more people.

You interview for only the smartest, but then you stick them with jobs that many engineers could do fine.

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