Amazon ads team: about 50 Sev-2 issues a week and no work-life balance

2018-07-06T00:00:00+00:00

Heavy on-call (about 50 Sev-2 issues a week) and an intense after-hours culture. The reviewer feels the work is mostly small fixes that build little coding skill.

AmazonSoftware EngineerPosted 8 years agoBy Anonymous

About the reviewer

Status: Current employee, staying
Time at the company: 1–2 years
Role: Software Engineer
Job type: Full-time
Track: Individual contributor
Level: 4
Location: Seattle
Degree: Master's
Experience before joining: 1–3 years

What they reported

Confident in the business: Not sure
Clear path to grow: No
Hours a week: 50–60 hours
Who makes the decisions: Engineers
How colleagues work: Working themselves to exhaustion
Office politics: Barely any
Left the org in the last 6 months: Over 20%
Food: Not free, nothing easy nearby

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Amazon ads team: about 50 Sev-2 issues a week and no work-life balance

AmazonSoftware EngineerPosted 8 years agoBy Anonymous

About the reviewer

Status: Current employee, staying
Time at the company: 1–2 years
Role: Software Engineer
Job type: Full-time
Track: Individual contributor
Level: 4
Location: Seattle
Degree: Master's
Experience before joining: 1–3 years

What they reported

Confident in the business: Not sure
Clear path to grow: No
Hours a week: 50–60 hours
Who makes the decisions: Engineers
How colleagues work: Working themselves to exhaustion
Office politics: Barely any
Left the org in the last 6 months: Over 20%
Food: Not free, nothing easy nearby

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