Amazon Software Developer reviews

3.5

55% would recommend to a friend

(6,268 total reviews)
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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
4.0
Nov 17, 2017

Good career prospects

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Pros

- Interesting problems to solve - Very interesting pay - Some very smart people around - Decent chance to boost your career - If you are in a customer-facing product, you get to impact millions of customers from day one (this may be a con too: if something breaks you're responsible for fixing it)

Cons

- The leadership principle "insist on the highest standards" does not seem to apply to our codebase. I've seen some 2000+ lines long classes, and I wonder how they ever passed a code review. - There is a high change you will not use the latest technologies. I have to code on my own time to "not forget" languages like node.js and angular. - Too much bureaucracy to get things done: things like getting permissions to access a resource, asking for help, can sometimes take hours, even days

5.0
Nov 8, 2017

great company

Recommend
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Pros

- lots of autonomy and freedom - you get to work with truly cutting edge tech - smart people

Cons

- its easy to overwork yourself - a single bad manager can ruin your experience - many teams are not exciting

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