Amazon Software Development Engineer reviews

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.

- Very fast paced life - If you have personal commitments which you cannot avoid, it will affect your work or vice versa. - Frugal. They offer a good salary and nothing more. The office is very spartan. - On-call! Every engineer experiences this. This will make you grow as an engineer. But sometimes you would rather not want it.