Is Amazon a good company to work for as a Software Development Engineer?

Software Development Engineer professionals working at Amazon have rated their employer with 3.5 out of 5 stars in 3,338 Glassdoor reviews. This is an average score with the overall rating of Amazon employees being 3.5 out of 5 stars. Search open Software Development Engineer Jobs at Amazon now and start preparing for your job interview by browsing frequently asked Software Development Engineer interview questions at Amazon .

Does Amazon pay Software Development Engineer employees well?

Software Development Engineer professionals rate their compensation and benefits at Amazon with 4.1 out of 5 stars based on 3,338 anonymously submitted employee reviews. This is 10.3% better than the company average rating for salary and benefits. Find out more about Software Development Engineer salaries at Amazon.

How happy are Software Development Engineer professionals working at Amazon?

54% of Software Development Engineer employees at Amazon would recommend their employer to a friend. This rating has decreased by 4% in the past 12 months. Software Development Engineer professionals have also rated Amazon with a 2.6 rating for work-life-balance, 3.5 rating for diversity and inclusion, 2.8 rating for culture and values and 4.0 rating for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Amazon?

Warehouse Associate (11108) , Warehouse Worker (6909) , Associate (6208) , Software Engineer (6150) , Area Manager (5687) , Software Development Engineer (SDE) (3505) , Fulfillment Associate (3405) , Software Development Engineer (3175) , Customer Service Representative (3042) , Program Manager (2475) , Operations Manager (2294) , Customer Service Associate (2215) , Sortation Associate (1865) , Manager (1454) , Process Assistant (1422)

What are the pros of working at Amazon according to real employee reviews?

""Pay is good but not worth the asks made from IT and how they are treated"" ((in 19360 reviews)); "Their health benefits is good and their career choice is helpful to start a new career" ((in 13214 reviews)); "A lot of information that is useful and great people to go to when you need something" ((in 7784 reviews)); "It was a WFH 3 months contract role.This role has good salary and perks.It was not so stressfull." ((in 5755 reviews)); "The work culture is good and I never felt that I was new in the company" ((in 4855 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Amazon according to real employee reviews?

"You do work bloody hard and very long hours so there is no work life balance" ((in 10061 reviews)); "You work long hours and not as many breaks as you would like or need at times" ((in 7162 reviews)); "Poor management and it's difficult to get a hold of someone when there's a problem that needs fixing." ((in 6643 reviews)); "There are also bad managers that are rude and do not care about the feelings of their associates." ((in 5177 reviews)); "The company advertises peak season as the long hours and hard push but it really happens routinely throughout the year." ((in 2423 reviews))

Amazon Software Development Engineer reviews

3.5

54% would recommend to a friend

(3,338 total reviews)

Andrew Jassy

38% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

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Non Software Development Engineer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 3,338 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

1.0

Sep 7, 2015

SDE

Software development engineer

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CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Acceptable if this is your first job

Cons

1. Most of the good engineers left. 2. Some senior engineers DONOT know their team's services. 3. Projects are boring. Writing code is NOT your job. Your job is to solving stupid tickets. 4. Management is chaos 5. Around 50% people will left after 1 year. 6. You will take a long time to learn how to set up environment and do testing. But unfortunately, those things are useless in other companies. 7. Senior SDE likes to command people, pretend they are the manager.

3.0

Sep 7, 2015

Tough ride. Make sure you have a god father.

Software development engineer

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CEO approval

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Pros

Lot of good projects Challenging work Smart people

Cons

Long hours Make sure you have a god father. Otherwise difficult to survive. Developers won't get time to learn unless they give up their weekends.

4.0

Sep 6, 2015

Lots of learning, but very little work life balance

Software development engineer i

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CEO approval

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Pros

You get to work on the latest technologies. Your code impacts millions of people directly. Lots of ownership and fast learning.

Cons

Middle management is weird. Very little focus on employee benefits. On call load can be a little too much. Attrition rate is high.

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