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Software Development Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Amazon for 2 years
September 11, 2018
Seattle, Washington
4.0
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Pros

The first place I've worked at.

Great team; seniors encourage learning and there's plenty of guidance. You're never kept idle because there's so much happening.

Cons

Internal tools are a pain – they're really slow.

Dev onboarding for freshers needs a lot of improvement. It takes ages to familiarize yourself with all internal tools, especially if this is your first job.

Sometimes there's too much operational/testing workload on someone whose time is perhaps best used for development alone.

Advice to Management

Maybe pause growth for a while and focus on improving internal tools. Improve the onboarding process for developers. I was practically useless for the first few months.

Reduce operational pain points for all developers (sorry about this vague statement, there's too much to elaborate here).

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