Amazon Software Engineer reviews

3.5

55% would recommend to a friend

(6,274 total reviews)
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43% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Software Engineer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 6,274 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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6K reviews
5.0
Aug 1, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Amazon is one of the few companies in the United States where a software development engineer can create products (e.g., EC2, S3, EBS) that customers are rapidly adopting all over the world. And you can be sure that the engineers you'll be working with will be very talented and productive too.

Cons

No major cons at Amazon.

3.0
Jun 28, 2012

No work-life balance

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good learning smart, ambitious people decent compensation

Cons

no work life balance scanty perks limited growth in India centers

3.0
Jun 26, 2012

About Amazon com

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Pros

Is a very good learning place. If you are with a good manager, your career path will be very good

Cons

Very bad work life balance. In case your relation with manager is not good, your hard work is all wasted, they will screw you way big time, and no one can stop it as well. Any kind of feedback, even annual peer reviews might backfire, specifically if your manager is not on your side. Recently there are too many people who have been hired, and if you are exactly looking to work with real Amazon people, there aren't many. 80% chances that your neighbor is also in Amazon for less than a year.

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