Amazon Principal Software Development Engineer reviews

3.5

47% would recommend to a friend

(115 total reviews)
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Andrew Jassy

39% approve of CEO

87% positive business outlook

Principal Software Development Engineer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 115 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Principal Software Development Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Principal Software Development Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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115 reviews
4.0
Mar 13, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Near unlimited resources from rich company, large scope role with lots of autonomy, hard large scale technical problems

Cons

Company/org pivots multiple times a year making it hard to build long term program to build impact. Bias for action at company puts limits on "doing things right" like security or avoiding technical debt.

3.0
Mar 3, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Payroll well managed Smart dedicated people Superb technology

Cons

Inhuman, Political, forget promo unless you have patronage. Management might want to read and apply their leadership principles. Narratives used by management as a bullying tool.

4.0
Feb 6, 2023

AWSome so far

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

culture matches their words Leadership principles are put to use in every meeting Amazonians have been welcoming and helpful during onboarding flexibility for hybrid work

Cons

Highly complex organization internally data and documents live in a variety of places, hard to find stuff

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