No real management - Software Development Engineer (SDE) II Amazon Employee Review

2.0
15 Nov 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Salary, Stock options, Smart SDEs

Cons

Most ridiculous and poisonous place I ever worked (And I worked in many places). Nobody really cares about organizing work process. No knowledge transfer. No junior devs nurturing to help them get better. No code or design refactoring for years. Not a right place to learn technology or improve as an engineer. A swamp full of crocodiles, preaching "leadership principals" as communists would preach their doctrine in Stalin time in USSR , but giving no attention to real quality or sanity in development. No real leadership too. Just huge bunch of pretenders leading this ship to its wreckage.

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Pros

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Cons

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