Amazon Software Development Engineer reviews

3.5

53% would recommend to a friend

(3,321 total reviews)
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37% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer I employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 3,321 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineer I professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineer I professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
Dec 20, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

learn a lot of advanced distributed system technologies and see it work at super large scale

Cons

pager duty, heavy work load, low compensation

2.0
Dec 8, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-The compensation is pretty good overall -Offices have ping pong tables -Fully paid bus pass is pretty nice to have

Cons

-No time provided to deal with ops issues, though still expected to as they pile up -Cheap in the name of frugality, dev boxes are hardly sufficient -Projects hardly given real (and never realistic) schedules, and when you don't complete something which you were never given time to you get reprimanded -Managers with out people skills can really drain the life out of you

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