Amazon Senior Software Engineer reviews

3.5

66% would recommend to a friend

(686 total reviews)
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45% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

Senior Software Engineer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 686 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Senior Software Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Senior Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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686 reviews
3.0
Jul 21, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Fast paced. Giving employees a fair amount of stock-based compensation. The company is still growing in general. I do like its "Just Do It" culture.

Cons

Not for real technology-centric engineers, unless you work in AWS space. Highly likely, you will be doubled up as a tech support as well. You need to deal with quite a bit of pager duties.

3.0
May 17, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The scale of the problems Amazon needs to solve are often unique. If you like large scale distributed systems you'll love working at Amazon. There's really very other places where you'll be able to have as much fun. Hours can sometimes be long, but well worth it.

Cons

Advancement is quick for the first couple of levels, but you can hit a proverbial wall once you get a more senior position.

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