Amazon Software Development Engineer reviews

3.5

54% would recommend to a friend

(3,330 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 3,330 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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2.0
Sep 27, 2024

Incompetent management

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Pros

can't think of any pros in the company, if I can think of one thing may be salary of benefits, but it usually for the namesake and management will try to remove higher paid employees before huge vesting unless you are related to manager by background or willing to give good feedback to manager even if they are counterproductive to the company. I observed this more often with some managers who came from CapitalOne across Amazon.

Cons

Bad management, leadership principles are used against employees who try to do the right thing for company or career. Promotions are only given to employees whom management thinks will provide good review for their further promotion or related. You may not learn much here in terms of career development, technologies and tools are internal to Amazon, wont help a lot outside the company, other than AWS cloud. Management raises budget concerns during comp review, I have heard the same in many other teams in AWS, people are getting laid off or either will be removed by Pivot/PIP for any reason, whenever they reach higher vesting period unless their salaries are low.

5.0
Sep 25, 2024
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Pros

Great place for training and learning

Cons

High-efficiency work environment, make sure to keep improving

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