[vaidhy]

Disclaimer:I work at Amazon as a dev manager.

Working at Amazon does mean that you need to work hard, long and smart. There is a lot of technical debt to deal with too. But the technical debt did not come from bad design, but from the way business grows and changes. There is a 20% growth YoY. Inventories run into millions of products across multiple warehouses. We ship through multiple means and we ensure the product shipped reaches the customer on the promised date at over 95% of the time.

In real life, this means that you are going to have trade-offs and some of the trade-offs do turn into technical debt. What we do with the debt is more important and amongst my groups, we are decreasing the debt by leaps and bounds.

If you want to see how it is, give me a shout. We are hiring, as usual :) I can take resumes in any format too :)

[senthil_rajasek]

How long have you worked at Amazon and where are you based?

[vaidhy]

I have been there for about a year and based out of Hyderabad.