Frontend vs SDE at Amazon

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Jun 5, 2020 3 Comments

I've completed the online assessment and have been matched to a FEE role on AWS. I was wondering is it better to be a frontend or backend developer at Amazon? Which position has better wlb and career progression? #amazon #aws #interview

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  • Amazon
    57fdxvji

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    Depends entirely on your team. I started as general sde and switched fee because I hated my first team and the second team was an interesting project. My wlb is great now but was ass leading up to reinvent. Currently prepping for l6 promo but who knows if that will ever actually happen.

    But really, every team at Amazon has freedom to operate pretty much however they want. So your experience will just depend on the team and manager.
    Jun 5, 2020 2
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      bornready

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      OP
      Thanks for the reply. What are some teams that you would recommend looking into and others that are best avoided?
      Jun 5, 2020
    • Amazon
      57fdxvji

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      57fdxvji
      Hmm...it's tough to say. Have heard very negative things about Alexa, F3, Last Mile. Elasticsearch sounds like ops hell with hundreds of pages a week. Many legacy AWS services are probably similar.

      I'd imagine that younger AWS teams have a higher ceiling - probably less ops, more interesting work (building new projects instead of ktlo trash).

      I know people in SageMaker who say that they like their team. A couple people in Glue say they like it. I don't know anyone in Lex but they seem to be launching things pretty quickly.

      In the Amazon blind channel, people seem to trash talk on Twitch Prime, but the few engineers I've spoken with there enjoy it enough. Twitch is probably better than Twitch Prime though if you can go there (they act independently from amazon). Also knew a guy in one of IMDBs teams who liked his work.

      But any of these places will also be filled with people who hate it. It's gonna vary wildly.
      Jun 5, 2020