Amazon Software Development Engineer reviews

3.5

54% would recommend to a friend

(3,345 total reviews)
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37% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 3,345 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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3K reviews
1.0
Aug 11, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Do not have any pros, besides it is easy to jump to other companies. Actually, Amazon should not treated as an IT company.

Cons

Actually, the most of your work is sending email as a software engineer instead of coding. Also the person who send and reply email fast and with professional word will get improved, no one care about what you have done.

2.0
Aug 4, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great Pay Flexible hours Potentially interesting projects (depending on team) You will learn a lot

Cons

extreme bureaucracy, people constantly quitting, aggressive deadlines (usually at the expense of quality software development), poor internal tools, operational burdens/tech debt Its not anything near as bad as the infamous NYT article, but it is pretty bad for a lot of other reasons

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