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

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
1.0
Jul 30, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Talented people, downtown/near-downtown location. Different teams can feel very different. But overall they hold similar culture. If you are lucky and find a reasonable team, you might be able to enjoy it. But not so much for other teams.

Cons

it's better to be a customer than an employee. no work life balance. management expects you to work late. uncompetitive compensation. on-call. political issue. This can be nasty sometimes.

4.0
Jul 24, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

A lot of talented highly skilled people Non-trivial projects ability to develop, enhance skills, learn

Cons

oncall: hard to maintain life-work balance due to oncall minimal company benefits

1.0
Jul 21, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

There are great opportunities and the scale at which Amazon operates is amazing.

Cons

Only 10% of the time is spent on new development, and the rest we are putting out fires. Prepare to inherit a legacy of hacks with little tests and no documentation (tribal knowledge is the norm). You will have to keep this software running 24/7 and do whatever it takes to keep it up to date with whatever changes in the runtime environment.

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