Amazon Software Development Engineering reviews

Operational overhead - if you're lucky you will be on a newer team without much operational overhead. Most likely, you'll be spending a significant portion of your time dealing with operational issues (pages, data backfills, investigating production alarms, resolving issues with other teams, etc). Work-life balance is hard to maintain. Very little professional development - aside from the internal speaker's sessions, there are few opportunities for professional growth and development. Email - I have grown to despise Outlook more than ever before. How can people read this much email? development process - some teams do agile, some operate in a chaotic code-and-fix mode. There's little support for best practices across the company. If you are coming from outside and have done some reading/practice in software engineering processes, this place will feel like a gigantic step backwards. HR - there is essentially no human resources department in this company. For almost all questions you'll be talking to an email alias. ridiculous upper management escalations - seriously, do you need to critique form layouts when they've been designed by a UI expert? And your background is in what, again? internal build tools and frameworks - outdated, can be frustrating, little documentation

Infrequent on-call duty for operational support. Poor knowledge sharing within the company. Outdated platforms and technologies in use. Occasionally, the need arises for late night support work. The operational burden of owning software is a both a plus and a minus for the company.