Amazon Software Development Engineer reviews

You have to stand for yourself and be very professional. Sometimes deadlines might be too harsh, or unfair things might happen. The key to solving all of these is communication. Don't promise something unless you are 100% sure you can deliver. Also, if you get into arguments with people you can have a though time. The key is, again, communication. If you don't follow this, a lot of problems can happen. Most of the drawbacks that you will hear about Amazon are totally solvable. It also depends a lot on the individual teams

My recent manager gave me work much more than I could do. He knew it is a lot and when I confronted him that it is impossible to complete over 150 hours of work in a sprint, he said "Figure it out. Those are just estimates". He meant I should be working day and night and also over the weekend to get the work done - which I did to save my job. But, after that this behavior continued. There was no appreciation for the work done. Many things that were written in my annual review was baseless and wrong. There is no work culture in Amazon. It is way below average. No fun, just work and work! Few people are really nice to work with but its hard to find such people. I would definitely not recommend anyone to work at Amazon. Their pay scale is also too less.