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      Amazon Software Development Engineer reviews

      3.5

      51% would recommend to a friend

      (3,319 total reviews)
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      Andrew Jassy

      35% approve of CEO

      49% positive business outlook

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      4.0

      Compensation and benefits

      4.0

      Career opportunities

      3.6

      Diversity & inclusion

      2.9

      Culture & values

      2.7

      Senior management

      2.6

      Work/Life balance

      Software Development Engineer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 3,319 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
      3.0
      Mar 14, 2009

      Amazon can be great but management wants fast hacks that will page you awake.

      Software development engineer
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      Pros

      You will be given the chance to work out interesting problems with some great people. If you have the motivation to drive your own deadlines and you can sell yourself to an MBA everything is pretty much great.

      Cons

      Long hours, average pay, upper management is perfectly happy with horrific hacks because they are never paged. Pager duty.

      3.0
      Jan 26, 2009

      Amazon started me off on the right track

      Software development engineer
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      Pros

      You will get the opportunity to work with lots of other bright people on massive scaling problems. Amazon is an excellent place to work right out of college. Your mileage will vary depending on the particular group you work in but there are lots of opportunities to move between teams once on board. I have been able to secure interviews with ease since leaving Amazon and managed to sharpen my C++ and SQL skills pretty dramatically while at the company. I was given a raise every review cycle during my stay at Amazon and was happy with the salary and benefits I received.

      Cons

      The work-life balance is relatively poor--most engineers will have to carry a pager on a regular basis. Sixty hour weeks were not uncommon in my organization. I've heard Amazon referred to as a "burn and churn" unit and I tend to agree with that. If considering various opportunities within Amazon and work-life balance is a big issue I'd steer clear from the retail and payments groups. If you enjoy building software from the bottom-up you probably won't get to do a lot of this immediately. There is a lot of legacy cruft to deal with and a lot of operational overhead is incurred as a result. I would not suggest Amazon to an engineer who is passionate about working with bleeding-edge technologies as I spent most of my time building code around application frameworks that were 5-10 years old.

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