Amazon Software Development Engineer reviews

3.5

52% would recommend to a friend

(3,322 total reviews)
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34% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 3,322 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Informatique industry (3.9 stars).

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3K reviews
2.0
Sep 10, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

good stock, good location, smart engineers around you, very good to customers, good name on your resume, nice restaurants around the company.

Cons

You need to work very hard. They treat you like a dog. No good future for career advancement. Not recommended for senior people.

2.0
Jul 3, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Good Salary, Interesting Technology & Problem Space

Cons

Middle Management (Directors and Senior Managers) is typically hired externally with the candidates making unrealistic promises. Typically, they grab a difficult project and commit to unrealistic deadlines, then death march the employees through these missed deadlines and finally are let go for failure to meet goals, having alienated their subordinates. I have been under three separate senior managers who followed this pattern and have seen countless others outside of my command chain.

4.0
Jun 5, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

They work you hard, which occasionally leads to burnout, but the work tends to be quite interesting, which makes the whole process satisfying.

Cons

Minimal perks, frugal is an understatement, but occasionally it's to the point of penny pinching. Depending on your team, there may be as little as no team building type activities, though I've heard tales of other teams that do beer and boardgames and pizza quite frequently

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