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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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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
3.0
Sep 13, 2023
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Pros

- Opportunity for growth - Impactful, challenging projects that deepen and broaden skills - Frequent feedback; open, honest communication - Great compensation and benefits

Cons

- Management is turbulent; a re-org and new manager every 6 months - Heavy operational duties; 1 week on-call shift every 6 weeks, unable to leave the house due to frequent pages, rare to sleep through a night without being paged - The "culture" is just work; there were 0 regularly scheduled team activities, all communication is strictly professional - Lack of gender diversity especially in technical roles

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