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      Amazon Software Development Engineer reviews

      3.5

      55% would recommend to a friend

      (3,333 total reviews)
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      Andrew Jassy

      39% approve of CEO

      54% positive business outlook

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      Software Development Engineer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 3,333 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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      3K reviews
      3.0
      Sep 10, 2014

      People around me are good.

      Software development engineer i
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      Pros

      The technics of colleagues are very high and they are helpful. The whole working environment improved the technics much.

      Cons

      The pressure is a little bit high. The welfare is not good than other equivalent companies.

      5.0
      Sep 7, 2014

      I work with awesome people doing what I like to do - and get paid a whole lot to do it

      Software development engineer i
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      Pros

      I get to work on very visible, customer-facing projects that make a difference to thousands of people a day. My management cares about my career growth and work-life balance. I am paid very well.

      Cons

      Many people, including myself, work 10-12 hours per day pretty frequently. On-call shifts are stressful.

      3.0
      Sep 6, 2014

      All work and no play.

      Software development engineer i
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      Pros

      Good starting salary Stock that unlocks the more you stay with the company Top tier company with a great name on your resume Interesting work.

      Cons

      Bad work life balance. Being on-call can kill your plans for the weekend. Management spins this as taking ownership of your projects, but really, it's just Amazon being too frugal to hire support engineers. Depending on the team you join, management can be either a pleasure to deal with, or a complete pain. Company is stack ranked, which leaves room for co-workers to inflate their accomplishments at the cost of others. You really have to fight for your promotion here, because others will fight for theirs. Company is very frugal when it comes to basic office resources. Things like dual monitors and quad core desktops are hard to come by, and you're supposed to make do with whatever you have. Small, if any, salary bumps per yearly review. It doesn't really matter how hard you work at this company; the increase in pay you receive year over year is usually negligible.

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