Amazon Software Development Engineering reviews

3.5

57% would recommend to a friend

(6,789 total reviews)
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40% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineering employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 6,789 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineering professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineering professionals compared to other employers within the IT (Information Technology) industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
Jun 1, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- You get a good salary while joining - You got to work on high scalable and smart systems - Good blend of technologies and automated systems.

Cons

- No work life balance at all, upper management expects you to work on weekends - On-call is terrible (a 24x7 support engineer with a pager to clean the crap) - Even though the notice period is 1 month, managers will try to delay and hold you, almost mentally harass you to serve for around 2 months (Myself has seen at least 4 such cases with different teams). I don't understand whether AMZN gives special training to managers to torture their employees. - Expect promotion once in 4 yrs (6 yrs for some ppl), unless you are good in hypocrisy and politics. There will always a carrot to lure you till you finally give up and leave the company. Forget about awarding, you will figure out that the job is not even rewarding. - Hikes are not impressive unless you get some good amount of stocks. - One lesson: A customer centric company is rarely employee friendly.

4.0
May 30, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Not a lot of politics. A good environment for solving problems and building cool things. Great internal tools, both for deploying and building services and for data storage, etc.

Cons

For a tech company, there is a large business side. This means you spend more time than you'd want trying to convince and work with the business instead of just creating cool products.

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