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Smart Team, Hustle Culture

Software Development Manager
Current Employee
Has worked at Amazon for 4 years
February 16, 2020
Vancouver, British Columbia
3.0
Doesn't RecommendPositive OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Pay and benefits are good. You learn a lot. People around you are smart.

Process and people do try their best to create mechanisms to increase fairness and reduce biases in everything people-related.

Cons

Hustle culture. Frontline managers have no incentives to actually think about people other than the minimal. Senior leaders are hit or miss; some are good people and some are bad people. Some jerks work 7 days per week and, consciously or not, expect you to do the same.

Advice to Management

Be deliberate and explicit about work-life balance boundaries. Don't only say "you own your agenda." Not everyone has that "soft skill" or emotional intelligence, and because of managers like you, they burn out, they leave, they get mentally scarred for life.

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