Amazon Principal Software Development Engineer reviews

- Work on stuff that your friends and family use and love - Company culture is a meritocracy - Company culture makes sense/is logical (which for engineers is important) - One of least political places to work - Engineering teams have lots of ownership...no software architects or 200 page requirement documents. Thin product management layer. - Managers are good individual contributors, not just people managers - Peer review culture (of your code/designs/deliverables) - The feedback produces lots of personal growth, and better engineers - No-one asks you to do overtime/work weekends/etc. - Pretty flexible working for people with kids (as long as prepared to commit to coming into office most of the time) - The Amazon reading and writing practice is awesome. - Crappy team mates get encouraged to leave the company quickly. - Company promotes women and minorities, educates staff on implicit bias, etc. - The NYT article was completely inaccurate/trash/rubbish/basura - I could see myself spending the rest of my career here.

I love working with such talented coworkers with such a diverse skill set. I learn a ton from others. Over my 12 years at Amazon I've worked on tons of teams from on the amazon.com website to AWS. Each team brings new challenges and keeps me interested. The culture is great, and I enjoy the cycle of busy-to-relaxed depending on the time of year and what part of development my projects are in. I love the culture of ownership, even being on call to make sure we build high quality systems. I've grown a lot at Amazon, starting as an entry-level software developer out of college.