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Great Learning, Overwhelming Expectations

Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Amazon for 4 years
September 26, 2015
Seattle, Washington
2.0
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Great place to learn and great people. There's a large amount of different projects, so you can tap into a huge amount of knowledge.

Cons

On-call duties include replying to tickets on your shift within 15 minutes. Almost every team has some kind of on-call rotation.

You're expected to do more than your job. You should be able to work as a Product Manager and Technical Product Manager, and handle all communications with other teams, being upstream or downstream dependencies.

Advice to Management

My advice to management is to hire more PMs and TPMs so you can leave engineers to do their jobs. They should, at large, learn about the iron triangle.

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