Amazon Software Engineer reviews

3.5

54% would recommend to a friend

(6,221 total reviews)
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42% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

Software Engineer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 6,221 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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6K reviews
2.0
Jun 23, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Good for new graduates to work for 1 or 2 years.

Cons

no work life balance. below average benefit package. bad working environment. regular overtime is expected. software engineer needs to carry pager to keep production system running. often gets waken up at 3am for issues in code not written by you.

3.0
Jun 12, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You're given a lot of responsibility (depending on the team, of course), which is a good learning experience for someone fresh out of college. You get a 10% employee discount (okay, I'm running out of good things to say, and I need to get to 100 words-- seriously, if you are ambitious, there just aren't a lot of good reasons for you to stay at Amazon).

Cons

You are a cog in the machine. It's run by MBA-types who make stupid requests. Pager duty sucks. There systems are extremely fragile, and you will have to spend nights and weekends because of the incompetence of others. People clock out at 5pm. There is very little passion among the other developers.

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