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Chaos, Useless Learning, Boring Tickets

Software Development Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Amazon for less than 1 year
September 7, 2015
Seattle, Washington
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Acceptable if this is your first job.

Cons
  1. Most of the good engineers left.
  2. Some senior engineers do not know their team's services.
  3. Projects are boring. Writing code is not your job. Your job is solving stupid tickets.
  4. Management is chaos.
  5. Around 50% of people will leave after 1 year.
  6. You will take a long time to learn how to set up the environment and do testing. Unfortunately, those things are useless in other companies.
  7. Senior SDEs like to command people, pretending they are the manager.
Advice to Management

Make Amazon like a tech company, otherwise, just hire contract programmers.

Amazon is much worse than Google, FB, etc.

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