Amazon Software Development Engineering reviews

3.5

56% would recommend to a friend

(6,758 total reviews)
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40% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineering employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 6,758 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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2.0
Sep 14, 2008
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Pros

There aren't too many rules or established ways of doing things so if you're the type who wants to try out new things, write new code or that kind of thing you'd love it. You wont hear No as long as it doesn't cost the company money. If it doesnt cost any money then you can do virtually anything you want. Probably half the cool stuff on our site comes from ideas people had and tried out on their own. It is definitely a good place for people without much else going on in their lives because your not going to have time for any thing else.

Cons

The hours are very long. Expect 12 hour days at a minimum and you will work every weekend, except they give everybody a laptop so you can work at home so some of that 12 hours is at home at night too. Everybody has a blackberry because its expected that you be available at all times, even when you're on vacation. If you want a work life balance, start running in the other direction. Its basically an environment of work the person as hard as you can as long as you can, and when they collapse and die, people say they just didn't have what it takes.

3.0
Sep 5, 2008
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Pros

Amazon is a great brand. If you tell someone you work at Amazon, outside of Seattle at least, you will inevitably hear, "Oh, I love Amazon!"

Cons

It is a very high entropy work environment, and so far I have a pretty dim view of the lower level managers. It doesn't seem like there's much opportunity for professional growth. The professional culture is mostly male and alpha-geek-centric.

4.0
Aug 30, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Great place to get started. You can work with a lot of difference technologies and get the Amazon stamp of approval on your resume.

Cons

My personal experience as an SDE Intern screened me from a lot of the downsides of working at Amazon, but I know many other fellow interns whom had to work continuous extra hours (all the time, not just at push). In addition the Amazon work model lends itself to being "on-call" - a.k.a. giving up your personal life for a week once every two months to support your team's software.

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