Amazon Software Development Engineer reviews

3.5

55% would recommend to a friend

(3,334 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 3,334 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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5.0
Jan 15, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Great cultural values that makes you think about how to run the company from the management perspective. One of the best companies to develop your career and to develop strong work ethic. Lot's of former ex-Amazonians have come back.

Cons

Frugality is a pain when another tech company down the street offers free breakfast, lunch, and dinner. My friends claimed I suffered Stockholm Syndrome.

2.0
Jan 14, 2016

SDE II

Recommend
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Pros

Compensation is great. Learning on and designing ginormous micro-service based architectures. It's a great chance to learn how to design huge, scalable, fault-tolerant systems.

Cons

The culture kind of sucks. Everyone's got cash, just not enough fun to go around... crushing bureaucracy, major hierarchy, ask for permission to pick your own nose, etc., etc.

3.0
Jan 10, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

The work is certainly very interesting as Amazon uses the latest tools and technology. And you will get to work with some exceptional people in the industry.

Cons

The work life balance is almost non existent. People work late hours and then you get into peer pressure. The work load is so much that you feel compelled to work harder and that burns you down very soon.

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