Amazon Software Development Engineer reviews

3.5

54% would recommend to a friend

(3,331 total reviews)
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37% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 3,331 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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2.0
Mar 19, 2014
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Pros

Good technology, large scale, a lot of technical problems to solve, you will learn a lot

Cons

A lot of politics, there is no great acknowledgement of achievements, you have to deliver at every single moment in your life to reach a happy situation, work life balance is really bad and it's really hard to estimate the tasks cost

3.0
Mar 17, 2014

Has pros and cons.

Recommend
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Pros

- Leadership principles that one learns at Amazon can be very helpful for he career, and even in life. - **If** you are int the right team, you can have the opportunity to do some really god work.

Cons

- Some leadership principles are not applied in a good measured way. By some I mean the principle of frugality. For ex., shitty desktop and laptops, shitty to an extent that they slow down work sometimes. Another example is making it as hard as possible for filing and getting reimbursements. - Very low pay compared to market once you have spent more than a year. Salaries don't increase at all and no new RSUs, until you get promoted. - Bad management in most teams / orgs. - Takes too long to start green card process compared to other companies. - Hiring quality varies a lot. - No subsidized or free food. Very rare happy hours / employee or team bonding events. Even while choosing a lunch place for a rare team bonding for ex., one has to pay attention to not spending more then x amount of money on lunch.

3.0
Mar 16, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Great experience at learning range of technologies from backend servers, to scripting, to front end website development.

Cons

No base pay increase, so no incentive to remain after initial signing bonus give out in 2/3 years. Also, very cheap when providing resources (e.g. 2nd monitors, etc.) to employees.

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