Amazon Software Engineer reviews

3.5

54% would recommend to a friend

(6,222 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 6,222 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
3.0
Jun 12, 2008
Recommend
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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.

4.0
Jun 11, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The great things about amazon are definitely the salary that the company pays its employees and the fact that the company is still young and has lots of market it can still capture. Another huge bonus is that they have a downtown office that's right off the I-90 corridor (but that's going to change soon)

Cons

I think that Amazon.com hires many amateurs, so it's tough to find experts/mentors, unless you're in one of few technically innovative groups. These isolated areas tend to also be the only areas of true technical innovation. The company also has a preference hiring talent instead of developing internal talent.

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