Amazon Software Development Engineer reviews

3.5

53% would recommend to a friend

(3,324 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 3,324 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
Nov 23, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

* Very fast-paced organization with abundant growth opportunity. Within less time, one would get to work on interesting technology, which might not be possible in other organization. * Working with Smart people and on cool projects * Happy feeling a developer when the code he developed, serves millions of customers of amazon.com

Cons

All Developers are On-call on a weekly rotational basis, The person who is oncall is responsible for solving all critical issues on the go. For smaller teams, rotation frequency would be faster and very hectic.

2.0
Nov 21, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

You get to learn lots of technologies very quickly. Very fast release cycles. Fast paced culture.

Cons

Individual growth is very limited. It mostly depends on your managers. Very stressful and work-life balance is not good.

5.0
Nov 19, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Intense work life, definitely learnt a lot of stuff. Great location, great people around. Very easy to talk to senior engineer

Cons

bad work life balance. Some teams has very bad on call policy, might need to go to office at 3:00 am.

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