Amazon Software Development Engineer reviews

3.5

54% would recommend to a friend

(3,329 total reviews)
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37% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Non Software Development Engineer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 3,329 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Non Software Development Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Non Software Development Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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3K reviews
4.0
Jun 14, 2012
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Pros

exposure to the brilliance of 100s of smart developers work with latest technologies constant improvement in tools that aid in development

Cons

hectic work culture not much fun, very frugal in perks unattractive employee discount even in Amazon.com

4.0
Jun 9, 2012

Its simply awesome!

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Pros

If you are looking to develop excellent distributed systems then amazon.com is the place. Work is amazing. I'm currently involved in developing low latency , horizontally scalable , fault tolerant systems. The work is very challenging. Also the company lets you own what you develop. Starting from architecture , coding , testing , maintaining your software which no other company provides. You will come to know all the aspects of software development.

Cons

1. Work pressure is a little high but manageable. 2. On call support is little tough. 3. Salary hikes are not good. But definitely the experience is very useful if you want to move. 4. Intellectual talent of the candidates varies a lot. You can find people who are very good to not so good. But for good people the work is definitely going to be very good.

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