Amazon Software Development Engineer reviews

3.5

51% would recommend to a friend

(3,318 total reviews)
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35% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 3,318 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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5.0
Jun 12, 2008
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Pros

being surrounded by very smart and passionate people who come from all over the country, great pay and options, job growth and opportunities if you demonstrate talent, they take technology very seriously and encourage experimentation and give more than enough resources, the pride that comes from working on a mass-scale consumer product for a globally recognized company

Cons

being in seattle, the weather is horrid, coworkers just running out the clock due to being discouraged to contribute big changes to a huge corporate bureaucracy with a million constraints,

5.0
Jun 11, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Very flexible. If you are on the right team then the work is awesome too. The pay was incredible, even as an intern. Overall I love working for Amazon. In general I get to work on interesting problems and the experience I am getting here will transfer well to anywhere I choose to go. Cloud Computing FTW!

Cons

Oncall. Politics. Lack of postive action for known issues. Some issues with reviews, especially when someone I consider incompetent gets promoted and I don't, but that is probably just localized to my team (I hope).

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