Amazon Software Development Engineering reviews

3.5

57% would recommend to a friend

(6,789 total reviews)
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40% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineering employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 6,789 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
Jan 4, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The internal development tools are fantastic. It is a technology driven company where developers can help guide the roadmap.

Cons

Every 6 months they look for people to fire and if you don't play the game right, they'll pick you. There is very high turnover, so half a team can clear out in a year. The pace is frenetic on some teams, priorities change frequently, and you can end up with hacks on top of hacks. Some teams have extraordinary operation burdens and technical debt, and end up dedicating all of their time to dealing with that instead of new and interesting work.

4.0
Dec 27, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Very customer focussed. Every project you work on will have direct impact to your customers. - You are generally the driver of any project - You can disprove your team mates if you have data-backed insights. Data is king inside the company. - Depending on the team, there is a lot of growth - Depending on the team, you will have awesome fun designing/developing code.

Cons

- It is *too* frugal at times. - Compared to Google, the compensation is a bit low

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