Amazon Software Development Engineer reviews

3.5

55% would recommend to a friend

(3,336 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 3,336 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
May 17, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Money. Amazon makes a lot of it. Base pay, signing bonus, second year bonus, RSUs. Depending on the part of the company you're in, they can be quite respectful in work-life balance.

Cons

Feeling like a cog in a giant machine. If you like big companies, go for it! Being pushed to other levels without clear expectations. Uninteresting work. For me that's building Ruby on Rails webpages and Java services hooked up to DynamoDB. Stingy on the holidays (but 15-20 days vacation)

3.0
May 17, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

you will get good handful amount of salary. company follows proper software development processes. Good perks. Big Brand.

Cons

No Work-Life balance, Mostly you will work on Internal tools and those have very less similarities with other tools and technologies outside of Amazon. you have to struggle a lot in market to leave Amazon and join other company. I have seen a lot engineers in Amazon with no idea about the things going on outside world.

4.0
May 13, 2016

Good for the first job

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You would learn a lot about the e-com business.

Cons

Sometime work is boring in Amazon, not too much challenge after some time

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