Amazon System Engineer reviews

3.7

73% would recommend to a friend

(131 total reviews)
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Andrew Jassy

55% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

System Engineer employees have rated Amazon with 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 131 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most System Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by System Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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131 reviews
1.0
Dec 13, 2023

The Rumors Are True

Recommend
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Pros

You get Amazon on your resume

Cons

You get Amazon on your resume - people know what this company turns you into. You have to survive the Amazon culture, which is HEAVY on politics and bureaucracy with some occasional technical work sprinkled in. You may think that Amazon spends heavily on talent and their products, but the opposite is true. Heavy workloads will fall to very few and the cutthroat stack ranking with mandatory year end PIP termination pits team members against each other. The Enterprise Engineering group should be avoided at all costs. The managers do not have technical know-how, do not listen, do not communicate, and are purely focused on their own upward mobility. The EE org is rapidly shifting away from technical delivery into the direction of crafting well presented documents about success, with less and less of that to actually fill said documents. Senior leaders lack vision and avoid decision making whenever possible. For actual technical talent, your work life balance will be absolutely miserable, you won't have prospects to advance, and you will not be paid adequately for the workload.

3.0
Dec 10, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good work Good environment Good skills

Cons

It was hectic to maintain work life balance

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