Amazon Senior Software Developer reviews

3.5

63% would recommend to a friend

(683 total reviews)
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Andrew Jassy

44% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Senior Software Developer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 683 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Senior Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Senior Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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683 reviews
4.0
Feb 20, 2021
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Pros

AWS is a good place to get experience working on large systems. Standards for scalability and availability are high. Scope is large and it’s easy to find interesting technical challenges if you’re willing to change teams.

Cons

AWS generally doesn’t care about CX quality or creating products that are a joy to use — if it scales, it ships. They’ll also routinely sacrifice operational posture to make deadlines. Devops culture can make this tendency a real pain as you drown in ops while clueless PMs keep pestering weak SDMs for new features ...

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