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Amazon Web Services Software Development Engineer reviews

3.5

57% would recommend to a friend

(335 total reviews)
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Matt Garman

34% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer employees have rated Amazon Web Services with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 335 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon Web Services is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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335 reviews
1.0
Mar 30, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Compensation is competitive when you first get hired, however their are few opportunities for a substantial raise once hired. Even when transferring to teams internally. - Talented coworkers

Cons

- Managers have unrealistic expectations. Causes work-life balance to suffer. - Hire to fire. Amazon requires managers to fire around 6% of their staff annually. That number is on the rise. - Managers would rather fire you and hire someone new than mentor and grow. - Broke trust after going backwards on work from home policy.

4.0
Mar 18, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

As long as you're not on the large service teams, the work-life balance is phenomenal

Cons

You're given a lot of ownership, which also means a lot of responsibility. If you aren't careful, you can end up responsible for a lot of work but if you're careful about how you commit your time, you can maintain a very healthy WLB while still contributing meaningful work to your team

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