Amazon Software Development Engineer III reviews

3.4

23% would recommend to a friend

(67 total reviews)
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Andrew Jassy

23% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer III employees have rated Amazon with 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 67 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineer III professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineer III professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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67 reviews
4.0
Oct 29, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Work with empowered, very smart people. Lots of interesting technology. Individual groups have a lot of autonomy and are empowered to make their own decisions.

Cons

Support of the tier-1 systems can be exhausting at times. Hundred of groups with lots of freedom sometimes creates duplicate efforts and mismatched goals.

3.0
Oct 15, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It is the place to be for e-commerce. You won't get this kind of experience anywhere else. For someone with little experience, its a great place to get a lot of responsibility quickly.

Cons

The company hates to promote engineers. If you want to get promoted past SDE-II you're much better off becoming a manager. Some groups have bad support burdens and management doesn't seem to care. The environment itself is pure chaos. Goals and priorities change constantly.

1.0
Jul 17, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Because you are everything (PM, SDE, SDET, Build/Deployment Engineer, Support Engineer), you can learn a lot. But this comes at a huge cost of sacrificing your life. If you have nothing else to do in life this is a great place for you to kill your time.

Cons

Long working hours carrying a pager which will page you 100's of times when you are on call no work life balance.

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