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Best job I ever had - Software Development Manager Amazon Web Services Employee Review

5.0
Sep 26, 2022
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Pros

Everyone on my team is super accountable and the company is not kidding when they say they are customer obsessed. I worked at different places in my long tech career where leadership talked about core values and tenets and they generally were restricted to nice presentations or postures on the wall. At Amazon everyone really breathes and lives the leadership principle. And yes, you won’t survive much longer and Amazon is definitely not a place for you if you don’t really buy in on the leadership principles.

Cons

The expectation for onboarding time is short compared to other big tech. (Again this was not a surprise and it was mentioned during my interview process)

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3.0
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Pros

Unmatched Scale: You get to work on systems that handle millions of requests per second. The technical challenges are genuinely fascinating and great for your career. Smart Colleagues: You are surrounded by incredibly sharp engineers. You will learn more here in one year than in three years at most other companies.

Cons

Work-Life Balance (WLB): Highly dependent on your team, but generally poor. On-call rotations can be brutal, and there is a constant pressure to deliver more, faster. Burnout Culture: The "Day 1" mentality means things move fast, but it also leads to high turnover. The stack-ranking and PIP (Performance Improvement Plan) culture creates unnecessary anxiety.

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