Amazon Software Development Engineering reviews

3.5

57% would recommend to a friend

(6,775 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 6,775 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
5.0
Feb 22, 2012
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Pros

My experience with Amazon had been great so far. Lots of things to learn and the work environment challenges you every day. Best place to be in for a fresher.

Cons

Amazon suits people who are aggressive by nature and are always on the run to exceed. If you are not this type, this might be a tough place for you!

5.0
Feb 13, 2012
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Pros

This is the best place in the industry if you want to learn new things and want to explore various areas. 1. Technical learning. 2. Co-workers and interaction with them is just awesome. 3. Pace of change is good enough to force you learn new things with the same pace. 4. Compensation is cool. 5. No politics like many other big companies.

Cons

1. Work life balance gets disturbed sometimes for some people, but that too is not as much as it is hyped on Glassdoor. Just join and see. 2. On-call: Each employee gets a turn, as per which he has to respond to any critical issue within a specific time interval. Indirectly, you have to be conscious 24X7 during this time. But its not same for all the teams and teams having very critical operations get help from their US counterpart (so you need to handle it during day only).

3.0
Dec 20, 2011
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Pros

1) Fast-paced 2) Results-focused 3) Smart co-workers 4) Frugal

Cons

1) Fast-paced 2) Results-focused 3) Smart co-workers 4) Frugal As a software engineer, 1) you will have operational load (on-call). 2) there will be huge amount of tribal knowledge usually poorly documented and not much valuable outside Amazon. 3) there will not be much time for some serious development. Everything comes quick and goes quick.

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