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Associate Software Development Engineer

Software Development Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Amazon for 2 years
October 19, 2018
Seattle, Washington
5.0
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Pros

Smart engineers, technical challenges, good pay, high growth, amazing internal mobility.

Cons

Career progression seems a bit stiff/scheduled. It's easy to get lost as a cog in a big machine. Many engineers are working on maintenance or boring problems, and there's no incentive for them to stay on a team because you can just bounce around. Some engineers are way overqualified for their problem spaces, and you'll have 10+ top engineers working on a tiny widget.

Advice to Management

Create incentives for people to feel like their work is important, even if it isn't super high visibility like Alexa.

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