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Great place to work if you are willing to work hard!

Software Development Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Amazon for less than 1 year
May 20, 2010
Seattle, Washington
4.0
RecommendsApproves of CEO
Pros

Lots of positives about Amazon like:

  • Ability to make an impact on end users.
  • Talented and smart people to work with.
  • No need to reinvent the wheel for the most part, so you can get to work on exciting stuff.
Cons
  • Pager duty for SDEs. This sucks; you are pretty much tied down to your work/home for that week as you need to respond to pages within minutes.
  • Do not agree with stack ranking for reviews.
  • Higher burn-out rate. Usually see developers lasting about 2 years before they move on.
Advice to Management

Lower the attrition rate, hire QA teams which gives developers time to build systems, and reduce operations/support overhead on developers.

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