Amazon Senior Software Development Engineer reviews

3.5

45% would recommend to a friend

(108 total reviews)
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Andrew Jassy

12% approve of CEO

37% positive business outlook

Senior Software Development Engineer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 108 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Senior Software Development Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Senior Software Development Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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108 reviews
4.0
Sep 14, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

My skills, network, career and compensation have never stopped growing at Amazon. I’ve achieved great work-life harmony.

Cons

Your manager is 90% of what matters at Amazon. I’ve seen more than one person get completely screwed when a re-org gave them a bad manager. I’ve seen people I look up to driven out of the company, when less than a year before they were given the highest possible rating by a different manager. Amazon does have a system that lets people appeal manager decisions, but it’s sort of a coin toss.

5.0
Aug 30, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Surrounded by lots of great engineers. - Strong culture of building quality products. - Lots of growth opportunities and ability to move around within company. - Leadership Principles are not hollow words by upper management but are practiced every day at all levels.

Cons

Many of the developer tools for internal services are out of date. Amazon can be slow to adopt industry standards/best practices where it would be beneficial to do so.

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