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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1.0
Jun 1, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

- You get a good salary while joining - You got to work on high scalable and smart systems - Good blend of technologies and automated systems.

Cons

- No work life balance at all, upper management expects you to work on weekends - On-call is terrible (a 24x7 support engineer with a pager to clean the crap) - Even though the notice period is 1 month, managers will try to delay and hold you, almost mentally harass you to serve for around 2 months (Myself has seen at least 4 such cases with different teams). I don't understand whether AMZN gives special training to managers to torture their employees. - Expect promotion once in 4 yrs (6 yrs for some ppl), unless you are good in hypocrisy and politics. There will always a carrot to lure you till you finally give up and leave the company. Forget about awarding, you will figure out that the job is not even rewarding. - Hikes are not impressive unless you get some good amount of stocks. - One lesson: A customer centric company is rarely employee friendly.

2.0
May 22, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

sign-in bonus and relocation fees

Cons

- if you work there for less than a year, you have to return relocation fees and part of bonus - work overtime because of bad project management - work employees hard - cheap work environment - drink is not free, free coffee, but not good

1.0
May 15, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

After working here, you won't find it hard to work anywhere else. 12 hours a day would look normal to you. Perfect place for workaholics.

Cons

Mercenary managers. Estimates become commitments. Self imposed unreasonable deadlines. Death marches towards those deadlines. Lack of integrity. Being honest about the scope of work can hurt you under the pretext that you don't show bias for action. Whatever you do is not enough. You have to believe there is room for delivering more and work extra hours to deliver more. Your work day doesn't end when you leave the office. It spans over your evenings and weekends - until you leave the company.

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