ethanliu4829May 25, 2026

Amazon - Company Culture - SDE2

Hack2hire Community · 2026-05-25T13:15:00.024Z

Amazon - Company Culture - SDE2 Time at Company: 4 years Nobody leaves Amazon happy, they just leave. The people who say they loved it are either in senior leadership or stayed long enough to stop noticing. Oncall is punishing on most teams. Reorgs happen mid-project without warning. The frugality stuff is real and grinds on you. COE write-ups after every incident drain the team more than the incident itself. The comp is decent. The resume is useful. That's the actual value prop. Anything the re...

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chloechenMay 25, 2026

Four years is a long time to stick with it. Did you stay for promo or just the comp?

ethanliu4829May 25, 2026

Comp and inertia, if I'm honest. Two failed promo cycles and I finally left after the third.

priyashahMay 25, 2026

The COE write-up culture is the thing nobody warns you about. Drains more morale than the actual incident.

oliviabrown1203May 26, 2026

Anywhere specific you'd recommend moving after Amazon? Or does it depend too much on the person?

ethanliu4829May 26, 2026

Depends what you want. Startup if you want real ownership, smaller big tech if WLB matters.

User-dis5iMay 26, 2026

The resume point is real. Amazon name opens doors elsewhere that you don't expect.

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