Amazon AWS: learning chances and no-blame incidents, but poor team management

2018-10-01T00:00:00+00:00

Leadership Principles, paid learning time and blame-free incident response, against tiring on-call, slow promotion and management the reviewer views very negatively.

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
Degree: Master's
Experience before joining: 1–3 years

What they reported

Confident in the business: Yes
Clear path to grow: Yes
Hours a week: 50–60 hours
Last stock refresher: $100k–250k
Who makes the decisions: Product managers
How colleagues work: Working themselves to exhaustion
Office politics: Severe
Left the org in the last 6 months: 10–20%
Food: Not free, decent paid options

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Amazon AWS: learning chances and no-blame incidents, but poor team management

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
Degree: Master's
Experience before joining: 1–3 years

What they reported

Confident in the business: Yes
Clear path to grow: Yes
Hours a week: 50–60 hours
Last stock refresher: $100k–250k
Who makes the decisions: Product managers
How colleagues work: Working themselves to exhaustion
Office politics: Severe
Left the org in the last 6 months: 10–20%
Food: Not free, decent paid options

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