5.0
26 Jun 2020
Current employee, more than 8 years
New York, NY
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
Data driven priority and product decisions from management. Developers are expected to understand the business and exercise judgement. High impact work that helps millions and millions of people. Senior technical staff are great mentors, some of the best in the industry in their areas of expertise. Excellent compensation, especially the stock, which apparently never stops going up.
Cons
Long hours and hard work - working at Amazon is not easy. High impact comes with high stakes for mistakes. Quality of management is highly variable across teams, my current manager supports me and wants to grow the team. Some managers fire their junior developers in order to cover up their own mistakes.