Middle School Management, Solid Engineers & Scientists - Senior Software Engineer Amazon Employee Review

2.0
Apr 9, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

+ Pay + Tooling (Slack, IDEs/Jetbrains, Macbook Pros, etc.)

Cons

- At least at PXT-CS (HR's science team), we have horrible middle-school level management that engages in many games - lying, telling different engineers different stories, constantly watching/poking engineers but not helping with blockers or tasking, no knowledge or desire to know each engineer's skills and interests to match tasks - just terrible. Plus waterfall. Waterfall at amazon. Without even true waterfall because they tried to skip requirements gathering. Just nuts. - Behind-industry-standard internal developer tooling and environments (brazil (internal build bs), sim (issue tracker), bindles (groups w/permissions), etc.) - High anxiety combative vs cooperative environment

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5.0
Jan 10, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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