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
Oct 30, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

-- open and honest culture -- customer focused, bias for action -- chance to work with some really smart guys -- a lot of opportunities for career development for a SDE -- Intriguing projects

Cons

-- Too much to learn just to get familiar with all the stuff you need for work (SDE stands for Someone who Do Everything). -- China Dev team is not well supported by senior developers in the headquarter

2.0
Oct 28, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

A perfect place for singles and workaholics.

Cons

Passive attitude due to too many works. Engineers are responsible for most of operational works and oncall.

2.0
Oct 27, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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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.

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