Good Pay, not much else - Software Development Engineer II Amazon Employee Review

2.0
Oct 1, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

* Pay is one of the most competitive in the market * Decent upwards mobility

Cons

* Benefits are sup-par, time and resources for training are laughable. Company will nickel and dime its own employees * Company will make life-altering decisions on a whim without any concern or exception for special circumstances, eroding trust and making many in the company prepared to leave at any moment out of fear they will be next to be screwed over. * Every little project you work on will eventually require working in another team's code base, but every team is so overworked they will do everything in their power to block you, creating a environment of excessive red tape and toxicity. * Consequence of the above is there are several duplicate tech stacks in the company and documentation is non-existent for even the most core of systems, making any and all work a demoralizing slog of wasted hours. * Average tenue is about 2.5 years, so there is a noticeable lack of institutional knowledge that hurts the company.

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Pros

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Cons

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