Is Amazon a good company to work for as a Software Development Engineering?

Software Development Engineering professionals working at Amazon have rated their employer with 3.5 out of 5 stars in 6,801 Glassdoor reviews. This is an average score with the overall rating of Amazon employees being 3.5 out of 5 stars. Search open Software Development Engineering Jobs at Amazon now and start preparing for your job interview by browsing frequently asked Software Development Engineering interview questions at Amazon .

Does Amazon pay Software Development Engineering employees well?

Software Development Engineering professionals rate their compensation and benefits at Amazon with 4.0 out of 5 stars based on 6,801 anonymously submitted employee reviews. This is 7.8% better than the company average rating for salary and benefits. Find out more about Software Development Engineering salaries at Amazon.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Amazon?

Warehouse Associate (11109) , Warehouse Worker (6913) , Associate (6208) , Software Engineer (6156) , Area Manager (5692) , Software Development Engineer (SDE) (3508) , Fulfillment Associate (3406) , Software Development Engineer (3179) , Customer Service Representative (3043) , Program Manager (2478) , Operations Manager (2295) , Customer Service Associate (2216) , Sortation Associate (1865) , Manager (1455) , Process Assistant (1422)

What are the pros of working at Amazon according to real employee reviews?

""Pay is good but not worth the asks made from IT and how they are treated"" ((in 19531 reviews)); "Their health benefits is good and their career choice is helpful to start a new career." ((in 13294 reviews)); "A lot of information that is useful and great people to go to when you need something" ((in 7784 reviews)); "It's a very huge company all around the world and it keep satisfying their employees with good salary and accommodation" ((in 5825 reviews)); "The work culture is good and I never felt that I was new in the company" ((in 4855 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Amazon according to real employee reviews?

"You do work bloody hard and very long hours so there is no work life balance" ((in 10148 reviews)); "You work long hours and not as many breaks as you would like or need at times" ((in 7104 reviews)); "Bad management always yelling at employees the turn around ratio of hiring and letting people go is really awful." ((in 6707 reviews)); "There are also bad managers that are rude and do not care about the feelings of their associates." ((in 5202 reviews)); "The company advertises peak season as the long hours and hard push but it really happens routinely throughout the year." ((in 2406 reviews))

Amazon Software Development Engineering reviews

3.5

57% would recommend to a friend

(6,801 total reviews)

Andrew Jassy

40% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

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Software Development Engineering employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 6,801 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineering professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineering professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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7K reviews

3.0

Jun 10, 2015

SDE Interview

Software development engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Overall challenging work and good opportunity for developing new stuff.

Cons

Operational overhead is considerable. Need to be oncall sometime 24x7

4.0

Jun 7, 2015

Review

Software development engineer ii

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

* Get to work on exciting things from day 1. You set boundaries for yourself. * management is pretty good in terms of listening to engineers (at least for the technical part) * you can grow to be a leader * other smart engineers

Cons

* Frugality gets stretched too far sometimes * on call

4.0

Jun 4, 2015

Great place to learn a lot but lots of pressure at expense of life style

Software development engineer ii

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

You get to learn a whole lot of neat technology at Amazon. It is a very vibrant place and generally the people you work with are friendly. They do compensate you well but there is a reason for that as the explained in the 'Cons' section...

Cons

On-call duties are the worst--very high pressure in which you have to try to solve emergency situation often on code you have NEVER seen before (someone else's code in which that 'someone else' has probably left the company long time ago). Also, getting help from others can be tough at times since everybody is quite busy so you have to find the solution on your own via the company Wiki, etc. Also important is culture: Amazon has lots of 'young' folks and you can sense the condescension from them to older folks. In fact, quite a few of them seem very cynical when interacting with the older generation.

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