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Only cares about customers; employees are treated with very little respect

Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Amazon for less than 1 year
May 4, 2012
1.0
Doesn't RecommendDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

talented co-workers name recognition you can learn a lot of cutting-edge technology moderately good pay

Cons

Only cares about customers; employees are treated like dispensable commodities.

Unfair promotion practice, political. Management will invent reasons to not give a raise or promotion.

Zero work-life balance.

Hard-nosed behavior is encouraged in the name of leadership principles.

Pager on-call duties can be really painful sometimes.

Zero respect for engineers, no training, poor documentation, sink-or-swim environment.

Extreme frugality. You will not find anything that has "calorie" in it if you are hungry. Only coffee or tea. The coffee maker runs out of coffee sometimes, and they don't bother refilling until the next day.

Advice to Management

Treat your employees as customers, too. Fire most of those useless dev managers. They don't add much value other than making the engineers' lives measurable.

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