Amazon Senior Software Development Engineer reviews

3.5

45% would recommend to a friend

(108 total reviews)
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12% approve of CEO

37% positive business outlook

Senior Software Development Engineer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 108 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Senior Software Development Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Senior Software Development Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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108 reviews
5.0
Jan 13, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Apart from solving largest, complex business problems, what I like most about Amazon is its working culture. In my almost 5 years of tenure, I always felt included, got all the support which I needed and I felt empowered to take my decisions.

Cons

Since I am working with best minds of industry, I am always learning new things (technical, soft skills) and I have to keep up with pace.

5.0
Jan 7, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Amazon created and maintains a useful framework for quick decision making, self-development, and other useful career skills. Your first mini project when onboarding is basically to learn (or refresh) on these skills and grow yourself as an asset before you begin doing real engineering. This time alone is a long-term benefit to you, regardless of whether you succeed/stay at Amazon. You get immense autonomy and trust to decide your own path to success. Your managers set a vision for what success looks like in the future, amazon provides a loose framework for how work is done at amazon, and from there you create your own plan and manage your own time. It's liberating.

Cons

Some folks *may* find the autonomy to actually be ambiguity, and may want more structure than amazon would like to give.

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