The worst experience I had so far in my career - Software Development Engineer II Amazon Employee Review

2.0
21 Sept 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Great compensation - Great internal tools to increase engineers productivity - Great products with great value

Cons

- Toxic culture - Stressed management that will lead to stressed engineers - stressful and unrealistic deadlines - Big gap between SDMs and SDEs - SDMs are not aware of the low-level details - AWS has a lot of ops and support work - very few development work

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Pros

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Cons

You have to be self motivated. NO ONE will hold your hand and tell you that you're doing a great job. If you need constant affirmations from management, this company isn't for you.

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