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Ownership is key

Software Development Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Amazon for 2 years
June 28, 2015
Seattle, Washington
4.0
RecommendsPositive Outlook
Pros

Money is good. There are mentors available for SDE1s, and managers have incentive to get you promoted.

There are also tech talks every week and a strong engineering culture.

If you want to learn, you have infinite opportunities to do so.

Cons

Oncall - getting woken up at 3 AM to work is the worst feeling ever. Depending on the team you join, it might happen way too often.

It can also be hard to find senior engineers to learn from or to have as a mentor. The company is very young, and the turnover is high.

I've been there 3 years, and my tenure is longer than 66% of the employees in Seattle.

Advice to Management

Do more to attract experienced talent and get them to mentor, give talks, maybe even teach classes. There are not enough experienced engineers to learn from, and the ones who are there don't have time to help others learn and grow.

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