Amazon Software Development Engineer reviews

more operational work. Much depends on your team

There is a very thin line between being Frugal and being Cheap, my manager falls in the latter category. I can safely say that we would be the most frugal team in the WTC building. We had almost no outings, no fun and a manager who was paranoid about dates. There's very little scope for personal growth in Amazon, there are a few teams which have good work and are recognized most others are below average. I've met a handful of engineers who are satisfied with their job here. Promotions are at a snails pace, the only promotion that I saw in my team during my tenure was one SDE-1 getting promoted to SDE-2 after completing nearly 5 years with the company. On-call sucks, it can be made worse with a bad manager. There have been times when I had worked on high severity issues over the weekend late into the night and I get called by my manager at 0700 hrs Sunday morning where he wanted the summary of the event after he had woken up. Incase you are wondering what org I was a part of, it was TRMS.