Amazon Software Development Enginner-|| reviews

3.5

53% would recommend to a friend

(2,829 total reviews)
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37% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Software Development Enginner || employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 2,829 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Enginner || professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Enginner || professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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3.0
Aug 6, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

1. Opportunity to work with large scale systems. 2. Great for new grads to learn how service oriented systems work. 3. Work with smart people.

Cons

1. Virtually no perk. 2. Very stressful on-call/pager duty. 3. Very bad criteria for qualifying for green card processing (applicable to H1B visa holders) 4. Insignificant salary increment. 5. Frugality actually means being cheap and provide employees with cheap and inadequate hardware.

3.0
Aug 6, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great work environment with good people around. A steep learning curve for employees at all levels. Freedom to work in terms of hours as well as type of work. A lot of responsibility is given to employees.

Cons

Pay is less when compared to competitors. Employee retention isn't considered important for lower roles. Employees are encouraged to work for long hours.

5.0
Jul 30, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Dynamic, shorter build cycles, you will see what you built in prod - Smart people - Lot of learning

Cons

- Lot of work - Frugality - Oncall

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