Amazon Software Development Engineer reviews

3.5

55% would recommend to a friend

(3,334 total reviews)
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39% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 3,334 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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3.0
May 15, 2024
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Pros

Good engineers, projects with big impact

Cons

Politics in the company is too heavy (I guess it’s true for any big corps). Also, the PIP culture is real.

4.0
May 15, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

1. Learning curve at Amazon is great because with every project there is something new to learn 2. When you are bored of the space you have been working, switching teams internally is easy

Cons

1. On-call cycle: You are expected to work any time there is an issue during your on-call week 2. Leadership: Your experience of work totally depends on the kind of leaders you are working with. (Not all of them are good to work with)

4.0
May 15, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Depending on the org and team: - work on projects that reach millions of users - see the relentlessly high standards when building solutions - work with super smart people - work with cool pieces of technologies

Cons

Again, depends, but: - can be a stressful, competitive, cutthroat environment - ownership frequently means that everyone's out for themselves - there's some trash pieces of technology and waaay outdated versions of frameworks/libraries in active use - you might have to spend ridiculous amount of work on a small feature because of how many users it can affect

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