Amazon Software Development Engineer reviews

3.5

55% would recommend to a friend

(3,333 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 3,333 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 4, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Work along some of the smartest people, challenging work environment, a lot of scope to grow.

Cons

Sometimes operations eat a lot of time, bureaucracy has cropped up over the time as it has grown, career growth is highly dependent on the business growth of your org.

4.0
Jun 28, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Money is good, there are mentors available for SDE1s and managers have incentive to get you promoted. There are also tech talks every week and a strong engineering culture. If you want to learn, you have infinite opportunities to do so.

Cons

Oncall - getting woken up at 3am to work is the worst feeling ever, and depending on the team you join, it might happen way too often. It can also be hard to find senior engineers to learn from, or to have as a mentor - the company is very young and the turnover is high. I've been there 3 years and my tenure is longer than 66% of the employees in Seattle.

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