Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE1) reviews

3.6

67% would recommend to a friend

(568 total reviews)
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Andrew Jassy

55% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer SDE1 employees have rated Amazon with 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 568 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineer SDE1 professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineer SDE1 professionals compared to other employers within the IT (Information Technology) industry (3.9 stars).

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568 reviews
4.0
Jun 16, 2018

Good company, great people, good wlb,

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

vacation time is good and mostly not accounted

Cons

a.in has a lot of attrition and sometimes teams may have periods without great work

2.0
Jun 7, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Mature tech environment with tools that don't exist at other companies - Good payout if you can handle staying 4+ years - Easy to transfer to other Amazon teams (people frequently move around the company)

Cons

- You're limited to learning and using Amazon's build tools, which are often slow and painful to debug - If you're an acquired company running non-compliant legacy code, you will spend most of your time fixing bugs and working to maintain compliance with Amazon's strict security standards - Equity is worthless if you don't know that you'll stay 4+ years - Promotion process is the worst I've ever seen, and requires a combination of luck, timing, and a manager on your side for you to get the right projects to satisfy the requirements - It takes ages to get even small features released because of strict requirements on testing and documentation (good for customers sometimes; bad for developer sense of accomplishment)

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