Amazon Software Developer reviews

3.5

55% would recommend to a friend

(6,268 total reviews)
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Andrew Jassy

42% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Software Developer Engineer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 6,268 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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6K reviews
2.0
Jan 9, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

The subject matter to work on at the company is extremely interesting and you have the opportunity to try innovative solutions to problems if you can back them up with data.

Cons

Working at Amazon is all about the dates. Once the dates are set, management is willing to cut any corner in order to meet them, which leads to technical debt and lots of legacy code and tribal knowledge about shortcuts taken. Also, you must take personal responsibility for your work life balance. You will always have too much work to do to have a reasonable balance, so set your own boundaries with management or 50 hour weeks quickly become 60.

5.0
Jan 7, 2018

Lots of Money

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You get a lot of money for doing a beautiful job. The Location was also really good, in a very lively location, and Amazon has a lot of events keeping our lives interesting.

Cons

Hard to say, but I guess you could say its a difficult job and expectations are high

5.0
Jan 5, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Work life balance, and freedom to handle schedule is great. Easy to connect with more experienced co-workers / leaders. Flexible career paths + the ability to tailor career plans to personal interests / desires. Once onboard with Amazon, there are plenty of opportunities make internal moves / work on exciting projects

Cons

Onboarding with such a large company is time consuming / can be stressful. Designing / implementing projects that depend on other team's work can be difficult

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