Hostile to employees - Software Manager Amazon Employee Review

1.0
Sep 16, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

There are some some great people and some great teams. I'm currently on a great team, with people I really enjoy working with. I've learned and grown a lot. There's a lot of stuff to learn. For example, if you want to learn how to do ops at scale Amazon is a great place to learn. The same with being customer focused.

Cons

Current senior management are alienating employees left and right. They don't know how to communicate top down properly. The last several major policy changes were very employee-hostile, today's 5 day/week RTO included. There is no recourse. No way to complain. All you get back is silence or "disagree and commit'. Even done well, at Amazon's scale ops can burn you and your team out. Tech-debt is an ever present problem. The older the service the worse the tech-debt, and the higher the ops load.

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Pros

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Cons

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5.0
Jan 10, 2016
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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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