challenging, hard-work, operations-heavy - Principal Engineer Amazon Employee Review

4.0
23 Jun 2008
Recommend
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Pros

very interesting distributed system; large problems; can get work done;

Cons

sometimes hard to get all the right groups working together; I hate watching the same mistake happen just because it's a new team; operations load is non-trivial; sometimes it feels like a bad cross between a startup with not enough resources and a big company with too much bureaucracy

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Cons

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