Amazon Software Development Enginner-|| reviews

3.5

53% would recommend to a friend

(2,826 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 2,826 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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3K reviews
2.0
Jun 27, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Amazon's Engineering team moves fast. There are quite some dynamics in the team.

Cons

Very veritcalized company. Upper management make decisions without input from Engineers. Very management driven company.

4.0
Jun 18, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

salary is not that par unless u r in position to negotiate technologies u get exposed are great great minds work around you

Cons

office space is not good to work

2.0
May 28, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Many challenging technical problems to tackle as an employee. They give lots of room for you to shine but also rope to hang yourself. It's a very dynamic culture and promotes best solution at the time. This could be bad though since it also means a lot of bad solutions are introduced before the best comes out.

Cons

Be prepared to move groups every year or two. You will get managed out if you're in lower end of reviews. Middle management changes direction too much. It's a very operations oriented culture, that means pager duty for everyone. Depending on group you could spend a lot of time fire fighting.

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