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
3.0
Jul 15, 2020

Mixed bag

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Pros

Fascinating to work at this scale, strong focus on operations, a lot of smart people to work with.

Cons

AWS focus on security and operations has gone overboard at the expense of feature delivery, uncompetitive salary, too many escalations and fire drills interrupting the engineering work.

5.0
Jul 7, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

- Culture that focuses on getting to the right thing for the customer, regardless of who's idea it is - exposure to lots of really interesting work and ideas - opportunity for massive impact - teams have a huge amount of autonomy and agency

Cons

- doesn't have as many benefits as other tech companies (free food, etc) - operational load (on-call) can vary depending on your team

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