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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1.0
Aug 26, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Salary. They pay you piles and piles of money and stock, although a good portion of the money is in the form of a bonus that you owe back (prorated) if you leave _for any reason_ during the first year, and a similar scheme for year two.

Cons

This is a place that has no respect for it's employees or any life they may have outside of work. Within 2 weeks of starting, I was informed by my manager that I the other members of the team all worked nights and weekends, and that the same was expected of me. Things went downhill from there, until I was working 80-90 hours each week and burnt out on anything else. Amazon fires a good percentage of its workforce each year, and only gives raises to the top 20%, which produces a culture of extreme fear and competition, with team members sabotaging each other, and plenty of inter- and intra-team politics.

4.0
Jun 19, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

+ It's a nice place to work in most aspects. + You get a lot of exposure to business. + Depending on your team, you could get to do some good work. + It's a big tech company. You get exposure to a lot of hot technologies and very smart people. + Ample scope to grow professionally.

Cons

- The work atmosphere is pretty intensive, compared to most similar companies. - Work-life-balance needs to improve. - The salary(and hikes) tend to tank after joining initially on a good package. - There is no variable pay or annual/performance-based bonus. - The employee benefits programme needs to be reworked. one of the company mottos is "Frugality". Extreme cases of that can't go down well with the employees.

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