Amazon Software Development Engineering reviews

3.5

57% would recommend to a friend

(6,776 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 6,776 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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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.

5.0
Dec 14, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

working as SDE for Amazon Dev Center in Romania -> Amazon is definitely much better than the outsourcing industry in Romania (Eastern Europe), from all points of view: smart colleagues, much more exciting projects (wide impact, cool technologies), much better pay, perks, looks better on your resume, etc Granted, we are in Romania, and Amazon doesn't have Google or Microsoft to compete against as employers for SDEs, but still.. it's pretty cool

Cons

steep learning curve, 'frugal' documentation, self-learning seems to be the norm. Colleagues will help you, but I still have the sink or swim feeling

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