Amazon Software Development Engineer reviews

3.5

54% would recommend to a friend

(3,345 total reviews)
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38% approve of CEO

52% 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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4.0
Apr 25, 2016

Amazon

Recommend
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Pros

There are some smart people here who you get to learn a lot from.

Cons

Sometimes the job is too hectic.

3.0
Apr 20, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Decent pay. Decent work/life balance if you do your job smart and lucky to be in a good team. Retail business lead.

Cons

Boring work. Too business driven. No technical challenge. Slow level up process.

1.0
Apr 20, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Amazon experience is said to valued a lot in other companies.

Cons

I was hired as an SDE and a week before joining, my future manager contacted me. When I joined my manager tells me that you would be working as an SDET. My manager has been asking me to write automation test cases which is not what an SDE is looking for. As many people I had multiple offers and I selected Amazon just because of its name and they completely screwed me over. I would advise any SDE to ask beforehand what he would be working on. I had asked my manager to switch my role to SDE. Now that manager has left Amazon and I have to go through the whole process again with the new-makeshift manager from another team.

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