Amazon Software Development Engineer reviews

3.5

54% would recommend to a friend

(3,338 total reviews)
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Andrew Jassy

38% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 3,338 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 11, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Most of the colleagues are competent and usually with a positive attitude. You have access to wast amount of resources and tools. You have the change to work on truly large scale problems.

Cons

Amazon isn't an environment were you can experiment too much, everything you do has to have some form of immediate impact

4.0
Jul 10, 2017

SDE

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Learning, growth, plenty of opportunities

Cons

Work pressure, fewer benefits, frugality shouldn't apply to perks

4.0
Jul 9, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Flexibility. You have access to brilliant people and a great knowledge base. Internal transfer program is great. Good offices and good hardware.

Cons

You might have a hard time if you land in the wrong team. Sometimes is really difficult to collaborate between teams.

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