Amazon Software Development Engineer reviews

3.5

54% would recommend to a friend

(3,338 total reviews)
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38% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 3,338 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the IT (Information Technology) industry (3.9 stars).

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4.0
May 28, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Smart people Develop stuff that actually goes places and affects lots of people Teams do a decent job of self organizing

Cons

Compensation could be better Getting stuck under a bad manager is really problematic Stressful Scale presents large and annoying problems

3.0
May 28, 2015

Great Place

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

*Work with the best in the industry *No swipe in/ swipe out.

Cons

*Relatively poor pay compared to other giants like MS, Google, etc. But the pay is better than other low to average ranged orgs

3.0
May 20, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The engineers are among the world's best Your work has a visible impact Ultra customer-centric; everything you do has a direct impact on customers

Cons

Work-life balance varies widely between teams. If you're on the right team, it can be fine. On many teams, you can end up working long hours. The Dev-Ops model means that you'll carry a pager (typically on rotation with other team members) and get paged in to deal with any operational issues. In practice, the impact of this varies by team, but on some teams, you can expect to be paged multiple times a day, including overnight. Amazon is a very frugal company. This can also mean 'cheap'. They don't do much of anything in the way of employee perks.

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