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      Amazon Software Development Engineering reviews

      3.5

      57% would recommend to a friend

      (6,789 total reviews)
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      Andrew Jassy

      40% approve of CEO

      54% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.0

      Compensation and benefits

      3.9

      Career opportunities

      3.6

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.0

      Culture & values

      2.8

      Senior management

      2.7

      Work/Life balance

      Software Development Engineering employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 6,789 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineering professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineering professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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      7K reviews
      2.0
      Oct 27, 2013

      The retention in this company is really low and there are good reasons for that

      Software development engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      1. Smart people, although most of them leaves the company in ~1.5 years from their arrival. 2. Be part of big projects. 3. The compensation is ok.

      Cons

      1. Bad management. 2. On-call rotation in most places. 3. Parking isn't free for employees. 4. Very hard to get promoted. 5. Noisy work environment. 6. Very low retention rates. 7. Poor work-life balance (I remember more than one month that I've worked more than 13 hours a day and on weekends for the entire month). 8. The company isn't enthusiast about applying it employees for a green-card.

      4.0
      Oct 24, 2013

      Sweet Gig

      Software development engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Amazon is always on the front end of technology. Lots of exciting things happening there across many different product lines. It's also easy to move around from team to team and position to position.

      Cons

      The company tends to overwork you! The company also considers 'frugality' a value - which translates into no perks. This is very disappointing and a drag on the culture.

      2.0
      Oct 24, 2013

      Growing pains/Not for the faint of heart

      Software development engineer ii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Working with some of the smartest people in the industry. You can make a significant impact much like a startup. Excellent benefits, parking reimbursement etc.

      Cons

      We seem to be doubling our workforce every year which means half the company is new to the company (no exaggeration). The culture of "bias for action" is lost in some groups. People are more worried about CYA than building the product right in a timely fashion. No work/life balance, overload of new hires needing to be mentored at the same time as needing to meet aggressive deadlines is very stressful and is currently causing some churn in the workforce.

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