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      Amazon Developer Senior reviews

      3.5

      63% would recommend to a friend

      (684 total reviews)
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      Andrew Jassy

      44% approve of CEO

      68% positive business outlook

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      Senior Developer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 684 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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      684 reviews
      5.0
      Jul 7, 2020

      Tough and Exciting

      Senior software developer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Very smart people. Lots of exciting opportunities

      Cons

      You are working with very smart people, so it's a little tough to keep up

      1.0
      Jul 2, 2020

      Good compensation. worst engineering culture

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Get the chance to learn tremendously of aws and distributed, high scale system design, operation and development.

      Cons

      1. Team culture cross whole CloudWatch is the worst I have ever seen. 2. A strong blaming attitude. 3. No sense of teammate cooperation, basically you are on your own. 4. There is a strong culture of PIP, last 10% performer are mostly at risk of being fired. 5. No knowledge sharing, u r on your own. why? as if you go down, others will be saved from being PIP. 6. Everyone is on the survival mode. 7. Most engineers plus managers are not actually enjoying the work, they do not leave simply because there are not many place can offer as good as Amazon. 8. Blindly respect of senior engineer. Non senior engineer is in even harder survival mode. 9. Promotion of bad engineer, even though he did not do good job in leading the project. even though he did not provide good impact. 10. High work load and huge pressure coming from top to down on project delivery. Even at the expense of threading people being at the edge of PIP.

      5.0
      Jul 2, 2020

      The best large company in tech.

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      * Team level autonomy and accountability. * Always learning. * Strong performers everywhere in the company. * Rational decision making process. * Once you have proven yourself there are a lot of different areas to work in within Amazon. * Fast growing company provides many opportunities.

      Cons

      * Risk of having a bad "first-time" manager. * Some teams own a lot of technical debt. * On-call rotation can cause bad work-life balance.

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