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Great Pay, Awful Culture

Software Development Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Amazon for 2 years
January 14, 2016
Seattle, Washington
2.0
Doesn't RecommendPositive OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

Compensation is great. Learning on and designing ginormous micro-service based architectures. It's a great chance to learn how to design huge, scalable, fault-tolerant systems.

Cons

The culture kind of sucks. Everyone's got cash, just not enough fun to go around.

Crushing bureaucracy, major hierarchy, ask for permission to pick your own nose, etc., etc.

Advice to Management

Permissionless innovation.

Allow your creative people to be creative, then prune.

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