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      Amazon Software Development Engineer reviews

      3.5

      55% would recommend to a friend

      (3,335 total reviews)
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      Andrew Jassy

      39% approve of CEO

      54% positive business outlook

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      Software Development Engineer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 3,335 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
      3.0
      Jan 20, 2016

      really depends on which team you are in

      Software development engineer
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      Pros

      highly collaborated, work with different teams, push you to learn a lot of the internal tools by yourself if you don't have a good mentorship

      Cons

      depends on team. My team is not a mature team so you kinda lost sometimes. But some of my friends really have a better experience, in their teams.

      4.0
      Jan 17, 2016

      AWS is fast-paced and a great experience

      Software development engineer
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      Pros

      I get to use some very advanced tools. Amazon is a large company so there are in-house utilities for everything. An interesting part of working at AWS is that the services are built on top of other AWS services. There are very few use cases for third-party infrastructure. If you have a problem with one of the services, you can engage with engineers on that service's team directly instead of having to go through customer service or a product manager.

      Cons

      The work is quite fast-paced, and management often has a lot of control over what you work on. The worst part about working at Amazon is having to be on-call. All engineers on a team are on an on-call rotation, which can get you paged in the middle of the night or on weekends. Even if you have no idea how to solve a problem, you have to be the point of contact on customer tickets while you have to page another engineer to actually solve it. The job can also be quite stressful at times.

      3.0
      Jan 17, 2016

      Mostly political management

      Software development engineer i
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      Pros

      -Seattle downtown -great food trucks for lunch -fast paced and you learn technologies fast

      Cons

      -Politics influence your rating and promotion -inexperienced managers -Less coding and lot of operational workload

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