Amazon Software Developer reviews

3.5

54% would recommend to a friend

(6,226 total reviews)
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41% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 6,226 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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6K reviews
4.0
Dec 4, 2016

Good

Recommend
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Pros

Credibility – clients view a Limited Company in a more positive light Higher take-home pay – being paid in regular dividends means you pay less tax and take home more money Lower personal risk – you are protected from the threat of personal financial loss due to the separation between you and the company Better tax planning – you can benefit from tax savings thanks to the various tax planning opportunities available to you.

Cons

Costly if contracting for a short period of time - Can be costly if you have a short term contract (anything less than a couple of months but it does depend on your daily contract amount) then decide to go back to permanent employment as you will still be required to submit end of year accounts.

2.0
Oct 25, 2016
Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

- Domain and technology diversity - Autonomous internal organizations lead to experiences of working at different companies - Accessible company-wide educational resources for self-learning - Dog-friendly workplace

Cons

- Autonomous internal organizations could lead to very poor experience contradictory to overall company management goals (the leadership principles) - Aggressive stack ranking comes with its own host of problems related to employee dissatisfaction, lack of team productivity, lack of trust among peers, etc. - Not enough senior individual contributors in technical roles for proper mentorship; it leads to pushing advices that are counter to industry standards and are detrimental to career growth outside of Amazon - Leadership principles can be over-indexed (like Delivering Results and Bias for Action) to the detriment of the product and customers.

3.0
Sep 19, 2016

Not too many up sides

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

stock options are very attractive now

Cons

work hard. bad health care. 401k in stocks. stocks vest VERY slowly

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