Amazon Software Development Engineer reviews

3.5

54% would recommend to a friend

(3,333 total reviews)
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37% approve of CEO

52% 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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4.0
May 31, 2015

SDE

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great culture, great people, interesting problems, demanding work. Lots of opportunities for learning.

Cons

Amazon has a leadership principle of frugality. This translates to people being cheap, corporate sponsored events being few and far between.

4.0
May 28, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Smart people Develop stuff that actually goes places and affects lots of people Teams do a decent job of self organizing

Cons

Compensation could be better Getting stuck under a bad manager is really problematic Stressful Scale presents large and annoying problems

3.0
May 28, 2015

Great Place

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

*Work with the best in the industry *No swipe in/ swipe out.

Cons

*Relatively poor pay compared to other giants like MS, Google, etc. But the pay is better than other low to average ranged orgs

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