Amazon Software Development Engineer reviews

3.5

52% would recommend to a friend

(3,321 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 3,321 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 Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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4.0
Apr 4, 2010
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Pros

There are a lot of smart people at Amazon. We work on the cutting edge of technology, and all of our problems are interesting. As for the teams I've worked on, it feels still like a start-up, each product is still immature, it's your job to make it better, and to scale it.

Cons

Amazon is a cheap company. Period. They make up for it with compensation, but don't expect frosting on the cake. Sometimes you feel like the tools are working against you, there is a lot of legacy code, and you may need to maintain something that has nothing to do with what you are developing. On-call rotation can be pretty stressful and demanding, depending on your team.

3.0
Mar 18, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Senior management makes the right decisions and promotes innovation. Its rare to fine a company with such great vision. An obsession with the customer means that more often than not the right thing is done.

Cons

The org is massive. There is a lot of red tape to fight through to even get the simplest task done. Schedules are constantly hijacked and feature creep is rampant. The release process needs to be refined and groups held more accountable for their deliverables. Frugality is often overly practiced at the cost of productivity.

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