Amazon Software Development Engineer reviews

3.5

54% would recommend to a friend

(3,333 total reviews)
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38% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer I employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 3,333 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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3.0
Apr 30, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

* Initially competitive pay for college grads * A well known company

Cons

* long hours * very political review/promotion process * essentially any code you write (even outside of work) is owned by Amazon * uses open source, does not contribute to open source * a lot of bureaucracy * very little engineer autonomy, your roadmap is set (and constantly changed) by VPs and PMs who are making decisions based on what, politically, is best for their careers

4.0
Apr 29, 2015

SDE1

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Work related to cutting edge technology

Cons

Oncalls can be little annoying but manageable. Remote HQ creates some issue

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