Amazon Software Development Engineer reviews

3.5

54% would recommend to a friend

(3,342 total reviews)
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38% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 3,342 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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3K reviews
2.0
Nov 28, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Working on impactful projects that are focused on the customer and long term business thinking of taking over the world.

Cons

Low pay compared with other top companies (Google or Facebook for example). Very cheap with employes: cheap and slow hardware (pc monitor, laptop, desktop), no perks, long working hours. You do unpayed oncall one week every month and you need to respond to issues in 15 mins in the middle of the night or weekend or holiday. Promotions are very hard and take many years.

4.0
Nov 24, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Huge learning opportunities. Nice career path. Intelligent Coworkers.

Cons

Lot of politics. No work life balance. Change of requirements everyday. Less perks

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