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      Amazon Software Development Engineer reviews

      3.5

      53% would recommend to a friend

      (3,321 total reviews)
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      Andrew Jassy

      37% approve of CEO

      52% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.1

      Compensation and benefits

      4.0

      Career opportunities

      3.6

      Diversity & inclusion

      2.9

      Culture & values

      2.7

      Senior management

      2.6

      Work/Life balance

      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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      3K reviews
      3.0
      Aug 30, 2012

      Fast paced, high salary, not always nice

      Software development engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Rock solid core business. Exceptional growth and cool projects all around. Good middle management and excellent Senior/Top management. Smart SDEs all around.

      Cons

      Oncall system. SDEs are asked to carry on the pager in an oncall rotation. Depending on the team your are can be OK or truly a nightmare. Nightly call if you work with an Indian team and live in Seattle. Scrum is heavily adopted and keep the peace very very high and intense. Happens that the projects are more workarounds than real fully designed solutions as there is no time to focus on the solution. Scrum makes the due date your enemy.

      3.0
      Aug 12, 2012

      Amazon - Software Development Engineer

      Software development engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good challenging work. Smart people around in team. Usually very less maintenance work. You can learn many technologies. Even distribution of work between Indian and US employees.

      Cons

      Always you are forced to complete tasks in time which is less than actually required, and hence long working hours needed to meet the deadlines.

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