A great place to work - Senior Software Development Engineer Amazon Employee Review

5.0
Apr 4, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

I've been working for Amazon Web Services for over five years now and I have enjoyed the experience. I appreciate excellent work-life balance. It's extremely rare to work more than 40 hours/week or to work in the evening/weekend. I have lots of vacation and virtually no restriction when I can take it. On-call is unfortunately a thing but it's just one week every 2-3 months. Sometimes I won't get paged at all, sometimes a get woken up one or twice but again that's very rare and we definitely consider instances where people got paged to be Bad Things and try to remedy them. Comp seems solid but I have admittedly not done a whole lot of shopping around lately.

Cons

Open space offices. I hate open space office and strongly believe it detracts from effective collaboration and productivity. But this is not unique to Amazon, you'll get this at most tech companies.

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Pros

Great place to learn and grow, salary

Cons

Management, no perks and too much operational load.

5.0
Jan 10, 2016
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Recommend
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Pros

Really smart people, a lot of opportunity for growth, always encouraged to be innovative, think big, and create something new. Competitive salary and benefits with other major tech companies. 100% self motivating work environment. No dress code and 4 legged friends are welcome.

Cons

You have to be self motivated. NO ONE will hold your hand and tell you that you're doing a great job. If you need constant affirmations from management, this company isn't for you.

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