Amazon Software Development Engineer reviews

3.5

54% would recommend to a friend

(3,329 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 3,329 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 Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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4.0
Jul 24, 2014
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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
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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.

4.0
Jul 19, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

As mentioned in the title, I've only worked on one team at Amazon, and it is in the context of a new/secret project, so I'm not sure my experiences are representative of the company as a whole. That being said: - Fast pace - Plenty of responsibility - End-to-end project ownership - Smart co-workers

Cons

- Not the most "positive vibe" - Collaboration with other teams can be a bit adversarial (I guess this is a slightly less vague example of my first con) - Work environment: open work space (lots of interruptions), frequent moving (on a rapidly-growing team, anyway), dearth of conference rooms - Focus on code quality tends to lapse severely in the face of totally arbitrary deadlines -- and isn't usually accounted for at all during planning

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