Amazon Developer Senior reviews

3.5

63% would recommend to a friend

(687 total reviews)
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Andrew Jassy

44% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Senior Developer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 687 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Senior Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Senior Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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687 reviews
1.0
Feb 10, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Interesting projects. - Engineers are encouraged to own projects from design to implementation (high degree of ownership).

Cons

- Leadership principles are often used to justify horrendous behavior or terrible ideas. Also, adherence to LPs can be a bit cultish. - Micromanagers abound. Most managers tend to throw employees under the bus to save their own skin and try to eke out every last drop of blood, sweat, and tears from them. See Blind for more horror stories - ALL of them are true. - Dear god, the oncall. Short-term focus means that the code quality is very low, and oncall is a huge overhead since you're trying to deal with an ever-increasing number of bugs and defects. - Pay cap - Base salary gets capped at $160K. And if you're promoted / perform above expectations, incentives only come in during the following year, not the same year.

2.0
Feb 4, 2021

Overrated

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Handsome pay, Salary comes on time

Cons

Work Life Balance, Long working hours

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