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Software Development Manager
Current Employee
Has worked at Amazon for 4 years
July 1, 2019
Seattle, Washington
5.0
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Pros

High respect to skilled technology experts who can achieve business goals.

Lots and lots of teams working on all possible tech and businesses, from voice assistants to cloud computing to video streaming to, of course, consumer retail.

Talented people everywhere to help you realize your potential.

Cons

Recently, in the past few years, middle management has been turning into a bureaucratic layer. They do not want to take up challenging, risky ideas and prefer to play a safe game.

Advice to Management

Among many other reasons, the most important reason for Amazon's success, in my opinion, is its attitude of taking risky bets and its ability to learn from failures to take on even riskier bets. Do not lose that attitude.

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