Just okay to sacrifice life for couple of years - System Development Engineer Amazon Employee Review

3.0
29 Sept 2024
Recommend
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Pros

- Decent Pay - learning opportunities - helpful team members - AWS experience - Good stock options

Cons

- Too much pressure from management on constant ETAs about tasks, they don’t understand ETA is something that is supposed to be adjusted and take it as hard deadline - lots of adhoc tasks all the time , it should be renamed from Amazon Inc to Adhoc Inc - Everybody just after growth and promotion and care about themselves rather than their first principle which is customer obsession. - Full RTO now which is going to waste a lot of time in office as their offices are not designed for Coding work sadly. - Yes good stock options but it’s like carrot hanging as management knows this and they will try squeeze every bit out of you. - Culture has gone downhill in recent years and people just grind like anything.

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5.0
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Pros

Really smart people, a lot of opportunity for growth, always encouraged to be innovative, think big, and create something new. Competitive salary and benefits with other major tech companies. 100% self motivating work environment. No dress code and 4 legged friends are welcome.

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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