Amazon Software Development Engineer reviews

3.5

55% would recommend to a friend

(3,337 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 3,337 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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3K reviews
4.0
Jul 2, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Smart people - I've learned many things over the two years being with the company - Strong engineering culture

Cons

Bureaucracy (big org) Politics Comp isn't great

4.0
Jun 30, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Very smart coworkers - Great opportunity to grow and learn internally through various tech talks, principal engineer talks, conferences, and as nature of the work - Decent benefits throughout tenure

Cons

- On-call culture can be toxic - Job perks are only okay for the size of company - Work/life balance isn't pushed from a corporate level, but from a manager level

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