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Amazon can be great, but management wants fast hacks that will page you awake

Software Development Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Amazon for less than 1 year
March 14, 2009
Seattle, Washington
3.0
Approves of CEO
Pros

You will be given the chance to work out interesting problems with some great people. If you have the motivation to drive your own deadlines and you can sell yourself to an MBA, everything is pretty much great.

Cons

Long hours, average pay. Upper management is perfectly happy with horrific hacks because they are never paged.

PagerDuty.

Advice to Management

Let the developers come up with long-term technology goals and stop micromanaging.

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