Amazon Software Development Engineering reviews

3.5

57% would recommend to a friend

(6,798 total reviews)
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Andrew Jassy

40% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineering employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 6,798 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
4.0
Apr 21, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible working time, relatively low pressure except oncall Ok level compensation

Cons

Oncall is a nightmare Office politics Lots of support works

5.0
Apr 12, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Lots of growth potential; Decentralized organization give freedom to teams to define their processes; Encourage and reward pro-activeness and drive; Surrounded by highly intelligent and effective colleagues; SDE have a lot of power and works full stack; Vancouver location a lot more relaxed and balanced culture compared to HQ; One of the best compensation in the city

Cons

Decentralized means your experience will be based heavily on your team and manager; Lack of structure and training, you are expected to be advocate for yourself; SDE have to do on-call operational duty.

4.0
Apr 8, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Minimum office drama SDE has a very big power over their daily project Working on new technology

Cons

Slow career movement, it might takes several years to get promoted to next level Salary is low compare to other tech company

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