10 THINGS THAT SURPRISED ME ABOUT SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AT AMAZON

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This author worked as a software engineer at Amazon from 2019 to 2024. Some of the surprising things they found from working there include how supportive most of their team was, how the company could act both big and small, and how easy it was to move between teams. However, on the negative side, they didn’t like working on a team with a lot of technical debt and having a manager who didn't know much about software engineering.