Amazon.com: you will learn a lot, but you will probably end up hating your job. - werkgeversreview Software Development Engineer bij Amazon

3,0
16 jun 2008
Aanbevelen
Goedkeuring directeur
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Pluspunten

You learn a lot. You work in small teams where you are an owner of your software. This means that you own everything, from writing the code to testing it to deploying and managing your fleet of machines. Depending on which team you are on, you will end up working with some cool technologies. This includes Amazon Web services (S3, EC2, SQS). You will most likely end up writing large-scale distributed systems. Like I said before, you will learn a lot. Depending on the team, you will not have support engineers or QA people to help handle operational issues and testing. You have to do everything yourself. This is a good thing, in that it gets you into the startup mindset.

Minpunten

You have to carry a pager to support your software. This means that you will be woken up in the middle of the night when you are on-call. Everything moves at glacial speeds. Projects that should take 1 or 2 months take 6 months. The bureaucracy is stifling, depending on which team you end up with. Any sort of project that requires work from multiple teams ends up progressing very slowly. Depending on the team, management can be very reluctant to approve of any clean-up work to improve legacy codebases. Pushing a new idea through is very difficult. I have tried doing this myself, only to be turned down. I have heard of many other cases where it takes up to 2 years to push a good idea through all the levels of management.

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5,0
21 mei 2026
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Pluspunten

Schedules are beneficial to fit most needs

Minpunten

Communicating can be hard at times

5,0
10 jan 2016
Anonieme werknemer
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Pluspunten

Echt slimme mensen, veel kansen voor groei, altijd aangemoedigd om innovatief te zijn, groots te denken en iets nieuws te creëren. Competitief salaris en secundaire arbeidsvoorwaarden bij andere grote technologiebedrijven. 100% zelfmotiverende werkomgeving. Geen dresscode en viervoeters zijn welkom.

Minpunten

Je moet gemotiveerd zijn. NIEMAND zal je hand vasthouden en je vertellen dat je het geweldig doet. Als je constante bevestigingen van het management nodig hebt, is dit bedrijf niets voor jou.

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