Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE) Intern reviews

4.0

75% would recommend to a friend

(319 total reviews)
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Andrew Jassy

58% approve of CEO

80% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer (SDE) Intern employees have rated Amazon with 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 319 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineer (SDE) Intern professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineer (SDE) Intern professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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319 reviews
5.0
May 4, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Work life balance is in your hands. If you dont take control of it, amazon will milk all your time.

Cons

Decisions on organizational structure are obfuscated away from you. If you want to know why changes are being made, good luck getting a straight answer

4.0
Feb 1, 2018

A good place to work

Recommend
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Pros

Lots of innovation, great minds around

Cons

off hours load, high dependency on internal tools

1.0
Jan 30, 2018

Worst place to work for

Recommend
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Pros

1. Free Banana 2. Good initial compensation 3. Very easy to get hired. You may impress bar-raiser by solving FooBar, and can get hired. Sometime they even hire you by just a single hackerrank round. 4. It's good only if you have plan to leave within a year.

Cons

1. Very easy to get fired. 2. Bad promotion process. Lucky ones get promotion within a year, unlucky ones get 4+ years 3. 0-5% increment. Almost discouraging for you. 4. Leadership leaves team very frequently, and so SDEs effort get waisted. 5. You will always hear that this is VP level project, you work 7-8 months on the project, and suddenly project gets de-prioritized. 6. Worst hiring practices followed. Leaders don't know how to hire people, they always compromise quality to accomplish their goal and latter fire. 7. I would say, it's kind of ego issue with Amazon. they have completely forgotten their value and now not innovating anything rather than just doing useless thing to remain in the market. 8. Amazon will disappear in the coming decade, so not good for long term.

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