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 3, 2018

Life’s pretty good

Recommend
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Pros

$$, Smart people, brand (opens doors when you have amazon as experience on your LinkedIn)

Cons

Somewhat bad WLB, Lots of ops work pretty much everywhere, good teams just don’t get pages that often but that also means they put in more effort upfront for ops best practices. Promos are pretty hard (esp. L5 to 6). Some managers employ churn and burn strategies but they get caught out in tech surveys and such so if youre on the outside but have a buddy who works for amazon, ask them to check out the results for you.

4.0
May 27, 2018

SDEI Persepctive

Recommend
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Pros

Total ownership of your product means you are free to do what needs to be done to make your product the best it can be.

Cons

Each team has someone that is on call for your system, if stuff goes wrong it can lead to a horrible time for the developer (e.g., 2 am pages for a system that went down).

5.0
May 23, 2018

SDE1

Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

Good and challenging Work culture

Cons

Sometimes, u might feel over pressured

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