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Smart Team, Bloated Systems

Software Engineer-II
Current Employee
Has worked at Amazon for 2 years
May 30, 2020
Seattle, Washington
2.0
Doesn't RecommendPositive Outlook
Pros

Salaries are competitive, and everyone who works there is intelligent.

Cons

There's a culture of implementing mechanisms over trusting developers, which leads to bloated systems with a dozen different code checkers, security risk analyzers, and so on. These systems are in constant need of maintenance. This makes development pretty miserable.

Advice to Management

Focus on empowering teams and get rid of all the organization-wide tech mandates.

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