Amazon Software Engineer reviews

3.5

55% would recommend to a friend

(6,281 total reviews)
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43% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Software Engineer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 6,281 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the IT (Information Technology) industry (3.9 stars).

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6K reviews
1.0
May 4, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

talented co-workers name recognition you can learn lot of cutting edge technology moderately good pay

Cons

only cares about customers, employees are treated like dispensable commodities unfair promotion practice, political; management will invent reasons to not give raise or promotion zero work life balance hard nosed behavior is encouraged in the name of leadership principle pager on-call duties can be really painful sometimes zero respect for engineers, no training, poor documentation, sink or swim environment extreme frugality. you will not find anything that has " calorie" in it if you are hungry. only coffee or tea, the coffee maker runs out of coffee sometimes and they don't bother refilling until next day

3.0
Apr 16, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

many teams working for different business. relative open technology. small team.

Cons

really bad immigration policy comparing to similar companies. oncall duty, work load, for sde to much supporting on legacy systems.

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