Amazon System Engineer reviews

3.7

73% would recommend to a friend

(131 total reviews)
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55% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

Systems Engineer employees have rated Amazon with 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 131 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Systems Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Systems Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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131 reviews
3.0
Oct 27, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Training and lots of opportunity for growth, long hours but decent rewards for performers. A great place to hone ones skills.

Cons

long hours and sketchy communication from middle management at times lended itself to tea leaves and terot reading . Inadequate compensation after the initial years employment with no COLA's for hard working folks.

4.0
Aug 10, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I'm with the AWS side of the company and I've been impressed with how much talent you are surrounded by. Things are very dynamic with often interesting problems to solve and great community feeling of knowledge sharing. Also fun with frequent parties and beer bash type social events.

Cons

My view is that of an SE which is a smaller subset of the people at Amazon. The skills you need to get in here aren't going to be used (generally speaking) once you get here. Lots of things are done in very Amazon specific ways (for scale) that may not translate to smaller companies. This isn't a 'con' so much as a word of caution depending on your career goals and position.

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