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Amazon Web Services Software Development Engineer reviews

3.5

58% would recommend to a friend

(336 total reviews)
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Matt Garman

32% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer employees have rated Amazon Web Services with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 336 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon Web Services is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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336 reviews
3.0
Oct 26, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Pay is really great and they make you work for it really hard

Cons

I had the Worst Work Life Balance there as there's too much work and too many and also so busy on-call shifts

3.0
Oct 26, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Work-life balance not at all what others will tell you about FAANG Great manager Great peers Great work culture Great pay Great benefits (cheaper health insurance than my private plan for the same coverage, and additional unexpecteds like on-demand legal assistance)

Cons

Dissonant, disjointed onboarding process, with trainings frequently divorced from the reality of day-to-day development Huge swaths of technology no one actually uses anymore Ask any engineer about something onboarding says to use and the response is "oh, I actually do xyz instead" Senior engineers, while extremely friendly and helpful, don't have enough time to meaningfully coach new hires Awful, insufficiently deep or fully nonexistent documentation for large, complex services

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