I expected much better - Recensione dipendente - Systems Engineer presso Amazon

Where you land in the company matters to your experience of it. This review is for the AWS org and Identity in particular. * In my 2+ years there, I had 6 different managers on paper, two different skip-levels, and the entire org structure up to the VP was replaced * In my 2_ years there, I had exactly four meaningful conversations about career progression with a manager, and absolutely no tangible effort was made by any of my managers to give me a way to make it happen * Systems Engineers are treated as if they have no expertise within the org and are considered to be of lesser value than a similarly-leveled SDE * Managers are allowed to run roughshod over IC's and nobody in the leadership chain bats an eye over it * If you manager doesn't understand the work you do and why it is important, your career is absolutely screwed * Managers tend to have way too many reports (far above the traditional 2PT), so you are almost certain to get thrown under the bus when something goes wrong * The org operates under a culture of fear that the line managers hide from directors as much as they can by blaming as many problems as possible on IC's * Nobody within leadership has shown evidence of being interested in taking responsibility for the damage done to morale and the destruction done to careers