Amazon Software Development Engineering I reviews

3.7

59% would recommend to a friend

(557 total reviews)
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Andrew Jassy

40% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineering I employees have rated Amazon with 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 557 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineering I professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineering I professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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557 reviews
3.0
Jun 18, 2021
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Pros

- compensation is very good for an entry-level engineer position - you learn a lot...you'll learn nearly every aspect of what is required to develop, deploy, and maintain a service. even if you don't own an entire service yourself, you'll own your code - you have more experienced people all around you (always true for SDE I, often true for SDE II...) - you have some cool internal tools that help you get up-and-running with a new CI/CD application very quickly - depending on team, you may have plentiful opportunities to work on new and/or interesting products/features/designs

Cons

- not very warm environment oftentimes, very results-driven. Remote-working has made this more true at least for my team - depending on team, there may not be many opportunities put on your plate for new and/or interesting products/features/designs. if your manager can't help this right away, the initiative will be on you to think up and present ideas/designs for potentially useful projects that you'd *want* to work on (while not dropping the ball on the less-interesting-but-necessary work ofc) - operational load (on-call) can be stressful at times, or even all the time depending on team. teams track this load, so ask hiring manager

4.0
Jun 13, 2021
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Pros

- You work with really smart people - Get to work at a scale comparable to few other places - Daily responsibilities revolve around services other places desire experience with - If you can handle pressure, the sky is the limit

Cons

- Have to look out for yourself. If you're getting pigeon-holed into a bad service or project it's on you to get away from it.

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