Amazon Software Developer reviews

Amazon is a great place to work at if you're young and looking to learn a lot. Everything moves quickly. Very few people at Amazon will come off as not intelligent, and some of the people are extremely talented.

First if all, as with most big companies, your experience at Amazon will vary greatly with your business unit, and your team. Mine are great. I work in the Kindle org, and overall it's a great place to work. The work is definitely interesting, I've worked in backend systems where the challenge is reliability and dealing with big data. The work-life balance is great, and I almost never spend more than 9 hours at work. When I do it's almost always because I'm working on something that's really interesting to me and I just want to get more done that day. I really buy in to the whole customer centric thing. We really do make choices that we thing would be better for the user (than the alternatives) even though it may be more painful for us in the short run.