Amazon can be great, but management wants fast hacks that will page you awake
Amazon can be great, but management wants fast hacks that will page you awake
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.
Long hours, average pay. Upper management is perfectly happy with horrific hacks because they are never paged.
PagerDuty.
Let the developers come up with long-term technology goals and stop micromanaging.
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