Good, but a lot depends on your team - Software Engineer III Amazon Employee Review

3.0
Apr 7, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Stable Payroll; - Company has great perspective; - Stock keep growing; - You will work with the biggest companies as your customers; - Free access to some of learning resources(acloudguru, linux academy, etc..); - Phone compensation up to 50$ / month; - Uber/Lyft compensation up to 170$ / month;

Cons

- Noisy oncall; - Promotion process in weird. It doesn't matter what you did and how, but how many people you showed your face; - Internal tools are terrible. You will have to rely on not reliable toolbox. 99% Availability for internal services? Not even close; - Managers and engineers all tries to push new service to get promotion. As result a lot of services doing basically the same thing and lack of integration between them; - Leadership principles is something works only for interviews and promotion process. Once you join you will not see any of these in your collegues; People are too tied doing firefighing every day.

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5.0
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Pros

Hybrid work (3 days a week), good team atmosphere, small sales teams, limited travel

Cons

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5.0
Jan 10, 2016
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Recommend
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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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