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Difficult onboarding. Have to reinvent everything

Software Engineering Supervisor
Current Employee
Has worked at Amazon for less than 1 year
September 14, 2021
Dearborn, Michigan
2.0
Doesn't RecommendPositive Outlook
Pros

Paid a good salary with bonus.

Cons

My department communicates poorly.

Cannot get help from others; I have to invent solutions to problems that have obviously been solved by other teams.

No one seems interested in helping others or onboarding newcomers.

I am not managing engineering; I am filling in project management spreadsheets that I had to create myself because no one will share what other teams use.

Most technology is proprietary (Java 8, Ant, proprietary pipeline, custom dependency management tool).

I am not learning much technically that can be used elsewhere.

Waterfall development methodology. They pretend it's Agile, but it's clearly Waterfall.

If something changes, no one adjusts delivery.

No differentiation between estimated effort and promised delivery date.

Constantly arguing over arbitrary deadlines.

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