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Software Development Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Amazon for 2 years
September 14, 2018
Seattle, Washington
2.0
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Challenging problems, amazing coworkers, and frontier technology.

Cons

The work-life balance is awful. There is a lack of documentation, and the one available happens to be outdated, making it useless. The learning curve becomes a problem if you are on a new project.

Advice to Management

I know the importance of the bias for action principle, but rushing projects and having incomplete documentation, workbooks, and runbooks, combined with people leaving all the time, makes it a death sentence during the on-call week.

You can't keep tolerating sacrificing long-term goals to accomplish short-term milestones.

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