Amazon Software Development Engineer reviews

3.5

54% would recommend to a friend

(3,337 total reviews)
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38% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 3,337 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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4.0
Feb 9, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

All established company pros: * Things are in process. * Competent employees get valued. * High level (SDE 2 or more) get good compensation. * Adds a lot as a brand value to your resume.

Cons

* There is a kitchen politics regarding who get what rating. * Most of the system is well matured, doesn't provide sufficient opportunities to learn. * Hectic life balance- being on call sucks the life out of you.

3.0
Feb 7, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

* Pay is good * Non idiotic approach to engineering * I learned a lot about engineering in my year here * Pay is pretty good * Seattle is a nice place to live I think * Teaches you that theres more to life than work by virtue of shoving in your face how distasteful workaholics are

Cons

* The company activly encourages everyone to treat each other like inhuman tools and be crappy to each other. Each leadership principle basically reads "be a crap to the people sitting next to you" or "be super arrogant" * The company activly encourages everyone to treat each other like inhuman tools (counts double) * Everyone is a tool * Code quality is very low. Interviews to get in are pretty easy as far as coding skills and technical knowledge go. I had coworkers writing javascript who didnt know what the DOM is, coworkers that didnt understand how the internet works...I was working on a core service of AWS too * The way work is distributed bascially goes as follows - everyone waves there genitalia at each other and whoever is most assertive gets their work of choice. * I tried to be nice to people because I naturally tend to put the needs of people sitting next to me over my own and I ended up with piles of everyone elses crapwork on my desk. This never happened to me at previous employers. * Low quality assignemtns, low quality work by peers, and everyone being kind of mean to you gradually drains all of the joy of work right out of your soul. People arent as bad as in the NYTimes article by any means, but even people slightly/subtly being crappy to you tolls on your experience as a human being

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