Amazon Software Development Engineering reviews

There are a couple of good reasons to work at Amazon. You'll probably see some of the same words used to describe other companies within the tech sector, smart, driven, intelligent colleagues. In general you get to work with smart people. Rarely have I met somebody who was incompetent working there. Inexperienced but never incompetent. For the right personality types, this is a way to experience start up life (wearing multiple hats, frugality) while also having a semblance of security. The company is still growing and Jeff is willing to make bold long term bets even if the stock market doesn't like the expense in the short term.

Amazon's decentralized structure gives teams a good amount of autonomy and freedom to set their own roadmaps and schedules. Everyone feels a strong sense of ownership in the systems they build. You are not just a code monkey. The decentralized nature also means that the employee experience may vary depending on what part of the company you work in, so my observations may differ from those of others. (If you're working on base-level functionality such as the order pipeline, you will have different pressures placed upon you than someone working on higher-level or internal-facing features.) One of Amazon's core values is frugality--a fact which doubtlessly helped the company survive the dot-com crash of the early 2000s, and should continue to serve it well during periods of economic uncertainty. This adds a nice degree of confidence in the security of one's job. Upper management attitude is that we should always be innovating, and based on the features the company has launched over the past few years, you can tell they aren't just using that as a buzzword. Amazon is still a relatively young company, so there is still a willingness to experiment. Look forward to the mid-2010 move to Seattle's growing South Lake Union neighborhood. We're building a new campus from the ground up. It's nice that they're using employee feedback in the design process. I've seen some headlines that seem to imply long hours (though I can't read the full reviews yet)--fortunately, that hasn't been my experience.