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About Amazon.com

Software Engineer I
Current Employee
Has worked at Amazon for 2 years
June 26, 2012
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
3.0
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Pros

It is a very good learning place.

If you are with a good manager, your career path will be very good.

Cons

Very bad work-life balance.

If your relationship with your manager is not good, your hard work is all wasted. They will screw you over big time, and no one can stop it.

Any kind of feedback, even annual peer reviews, might backfire, especially if your manager is not on your side.

Recently, too many people have been hired. If you are looking to work with real Amazon people, there aren't many. There's an 80% chance your neighbor has also been at Amazon for less than a year.

Advice to Management

1-1 meetings and reviews are supposed to be personal and not to be shared with everyone publicly. There is a leadership principle called being vocally self-critical, and management has to follow that at least some times.

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