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      Amazon Software Development Engineering reviews

      3.5

      57% would recommend to a friend

      (6,778 total reviews)
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      Andrew Jassy

      40% approve of CEO

      54% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.0

      Compensation and benefits

      4.0

      Career opportunities

      3.6

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.0

      Culture & values

      2.8

      Senior management

      2.7

      Work/Life balance

      Software Development Engineering employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 6,778 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
      4.0
      Sep 6, 2012

      Your experience highly depends on your group

      Software development engineer ii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Chances to work with brilliant people on products impacting millions of customers. Lots of interesting challenges. Potential for high visibility projects.

      Cons

      Teams can vary greatly across the company, and many will suck you soul. That said, there are a lot of amazing opportunities elsewhere in the company. Hours can fluctuate wildly. If you're working on a key product, your work/life balance may get destroyed periodically.

      5.0
      Sep 2, 2012

      Work hard, party hard

      Software development engineer ii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The company is objective, unemotional and focussed. For a certain type of old-school mathematician nerd (not the new-age script-kiddies), this can be a good thing. There are no company wide memos on "culture" or "grand visions". Everything you do has an objective, and a measurable, well-defined outcome. You know why you're doing something and that helps you make decisions faster, easier and more efficiently. The company is growing, aggressive and I believe the only company able to withstand Apple. The company genuinely cares about customers - that's not rhetoric. You can find an Amazon engineer at 3:00am in the morning, shake them out of deep sleep, drug them and ask them why a certain decision was made. Whether they're on-guard or off-guard, the answer won't change. If something impacts customers in a positive way, it will be done.

      Cons

      The above pro can become a minor con since there is little to non-existent romanticism about any type of work. The biggest con is facilities - I came from a company with lots of facilities, on-campus laundry, etc., so I was used to convenient parking and a lot of campus-wide services which was a mild annoyance to me for a few months. The hours aren't quite flexible, so it gets difficult to manage your time if you have to visit other businesses during business hours only.

      3.0
      Aug 30, 2012

      Fast paced, high salary, not always nice

      Software development engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Rock solid core business. Exceptional growth and cool projects all around. Good middle management and excellent Senior/Top management. Smart SDEs all around.

      Cons

      Oncall system. SDEs are asked to carry on the pager in an oncall rotation. Depending on the team your are can be OK or truly a nightmare. Nightly call if you work with an Indian team and live in Seattle. Scrum is heavily adopted and keep the peace very very high and intense. Happens that the projects are more workarounds than real fully designed solutions as there is no time to focus on the solution. Scrum makes the due date your enemy.

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