Amazon Software Development Engineering reviews

3.5

57% would recommend to a friend

(6,791 total reviews)
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40% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineering employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 6,791 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineering professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineering professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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7K reviews
3.0
Mar 17, 2014

Has pros and cons.

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Pros

- Leadership principles that one learns at Amazon can be very helpful for he career, and even in life. - **If** you are int the right team, you can have the opportunity to do some really god work.

Cons

- Some leadership principles are not applied in a good measured way. By some I mean the principle of frugality. For ex., shitty desktop and laptops, shitty to an extent that they slow down work sometimes. Another example is making it as hard as possible for filing and getting reimbursements. - Very low pay compared to market once you have spent more than a year. Salaries don't increase at all and no new RSUs, until you get promoted. - Bad management in most teams / orgs. - Takes too long to start green card process compared to other companies. - Hiring quality varies a lot. - No subsidized or free food. Very rare happy hours / employee or team bonding events. Even while choosing a lunch place for a rare team bonding for ex., one has to pay attention to not spending more then x amount of money on lunch.

3.0
Mar 9, 2014

AWS review

Recommend
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Pros

You can use cutting-edge technology at AWS. You will have a great insight of many services at AWS. Amazon is a good start point for young professionals.

Cons

Oncall rotation is very frequent and the workload is heavy. Not many female engineers at AWS. Amazon treats its customers better than its employees. Work-life balance is not good.

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