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      Amazon Software Development Engineering reviews

      3.5

      57% would recommend to a friend

      (6,794 total reviews)
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      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 6,794 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
      Feb 2, 2015

      Spent too much time in a low value division, couldn't get out.

      Software development engineer
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      Pros

      Ability to participate in community actions like updating build tools to work with new languages. It is easy to get help from another team especially if you are good about networking. The leadership model is open to doing things differently. Builder Tools makes some really nice stuff.

      Cons

      Easy to become siloed. Easy to lose track of mission and take on too much ownership. Trouble tickets are not taken seriously. Quantity > Quality is enforced on some teams. Many core tools are very old and written in Perl.

      3.0
      Jan 30, 2015

      Working Hard

      Software development engineer ii
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      Pros

      You will be always busy and learn new areas. There are no significant boundary. The code base are open. You can access most of the company's code.

      Cons

      The operation work are heavy in some sort. On-call.

      4.0
      Jan 28, 2015

      Good idea but...

      Software development engineer ii
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      Pros

      Amazon is a cool place to work. Amazon prides itself of being obsessed with customer service and being data driven. This clarifies the decision making process for all employees at all levels and enables individuals to make decisions in the best interest of the customer. Amazon gives large responsibilities to all employees regardless of tenure/role in the hopes that the best ideas are driven forward.

      Cons

      The downside to Amazon's philosophy is the lack of consistent direction. There are many teams trying to build new things for their customers and that leads to different agenda's competing for resources. That combined with the very high turn over rate results in teams who are very inefficient due to having underdeveloped processes and inexperienced engineers. This all leads to an environment where you can get great V1 products out the door quickly, but those products often grow stale very quickly due to the fact that the team can not maintain that initial momentum.

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