Amazon Software Development Engineer reviews

3.5

52% would recommend to a friend

(3,321 total reviews)
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34% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 3,321 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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3K reviews
4.0
Jul 3, 2012
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Pros

Great colleagues, exposure to the World class technology, Opportunity to grow

Cons

Frugality in facility, Senior management is a lot pushy will puh you to your limits

3.0
Jun 19, 2012
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Pros

Retail and Search are good . they actually work on developing new features and lot of opportunities to work on cutting edge technologies . amazon highly focus on perl - mason , java . Many systems are already in place so you can reuse existing system and work on developing new features . very good monitoring tools and great place to learn if you land in right org .

Cons

orgs such operations is not a good org . they have very high operational load and projects are not very good . if u r hired as support role in amazon.com then becoming sde is very challenging . people lie that you will have opportunity to become sde by doing development but the fact is that support role do not really get any development opportunities so beware . very dynamic and agile so you end up pushing incomplete feature or work very long hours to meet the deadline .

4.0
Jun 17, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Compensation is cool. Good joining bonus and stock options (but it is distributed over a substantial period of time as part of emp retention). Great learning about various latest technologies, scalability factors, immediate impact etc.

Cons

Bad employee satisfaction. No one cares about emp workspace / perks (like shuttle / food / sports memberships etc).

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