Is Amazon a good company to work for as a Software Development Engineer?

Software Development Engineer professionals working at Amazon have rated their employer with 3.5 out of 5 stars in 3,334 Glassdoor reviews. This is an average score with the overall rating of Amazon employees being 3.5 out of 5 stars. Search open Software Development Engineer Jobs at Amazon now and start preparing for your job interview by browsing frequently asked Software Development Engineer interview questions at Amazon .

Does Amazon pay Software Development Engineer employees well?

Software Development Engineer professionals rate their compensation and benefits at Amazon with 4.1 out of 5 stars based on 3,334 anonymously submitted employee reviews. This is 10.3% better than the company average rating for salary and benefits. Find out more about Software Development Engineer salaries at Amazon.

How happy are Software Development Engineer professionals working at Amazon?

55% of Software Development Engineer employees at Amazon would recommend their employer to a friend. This rating has decreased by 4% in the past 12 months. Software Development Engineer professionals have also rated Amazon with a 2.7 rating for work-life-balance, 3.6 rating for diversity and inclusion, 2.9 rating for culture and values and 4.0 rating for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Amazon?

Warehouse Associate (11106) , Warehouse Worker (6905) , Associate (6204) , Software Engineer (6138) , Area Manager (5680) , Software Development Engineer (SDE) (3499) , Fulfillment Associate (3405) , Software Development Engineer (3170) , Customer Service Representative (3041) , Program Manager (2473) , Operations Manager (2291) , Customer Service Associate (2214) , Sortation Associate (1863) , Manager (1454) , Process Assistant (1421)

What are the pros of working at Amazon according to real employee reviews?

"Pay is good but not worth the asks made from IT and how they are treated" ((in 19510 reviews)); "Their health benefits is good and their career choice is helpful to start a new career" ((in 13167 reviews)); "A lot of information that is useful and great people to go to when you need something" ((in 7755 reviews)); "It's a very huge company all around the world and it keep satisfying their employees with good salary and accommodation" ((in 5792 reviews)); "The work culture is good and I never felt that I was new in the company" ((in 4880 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Amazon according to real employee reviews?

"You do work bloody hard and very long hours so there is no work life balance" ((in 10089 reviews)); "You work long hours and not as many breaks as you would like or need at times" ((in 7025 reviews)); "Poor management can lead to unnecessary stress and even impact your standing within the company." ((in 6655 reviews)); "There are also bad managers that are rude and do not care about the feelings of their associates." ((in 5184 reviews)); "The company advertises peak season as the long hours and hard push but it really happens routinely throughout the year." ((in 2412 reviews))

Amazon Software Development Engineer reviews

3.5

55% would recommend to a friend

(3,334 total reviews)

Andrew Jassy

39% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

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Software Development Engineer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 3,334 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 Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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3K reviews

1.0

Oct 1, 2013

glory dates in the past, looking bad from inside. middle management has no brain and people promoted based upon how clos

Software development engineer

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Pros

for those who can't get better places/companies

Cons

-- middle management is completely corrupted with politics -- managers will take the credit from your work and dump the discredits to you -- as big as Microsoft but no monopoly product in the market

5.0

Sep 24, 2013

One of the best places to work for as a Software Engineer

Software development engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

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Pros

Amazon has a great international presence and as such employs a vast variety of people. As a result, one meets and interacts with people from myriad backgrounds and nationalities, one gets to travel and experience this multi-national flavour. The company has a very rigorous attitude towards software development. There is a well-established discipline of testing and deployment. Amazonians are very particular about how every feature/upgrade effects the customer, whether internal or external. As a hard core technology company, it uses state-of-the-art technologies and provides various opportunities in various aspects of software engineering. The company also provides internal training if one wishes to learn some new technology.

Cons

Many teams are split into multiple sub-teams based at different geographical locations, in fact in different countries. The difference in time-zone and the inability to conveniently meet face-to-face introduces delays and sometimes, miscommunication. Since every team is mandated to support their software and almost all software is in the form of internal services, every team member has to perform on-call duties for addressing emergency bugs. This can be stressful as an emergency bug report can come in any time during the day or night. Also since most teams are small, the on-call rotation is quite frequent.

2.0

Sep 22, 2013

Hectic and Painful

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Pros

Good Salary, Good exposure to various technologies

Cons

Work/life balance. Constantly under pressure, panic and chaos. Most projects reach fire-fighting mode. Managers dont respect employees personal time and expect them to work on weekends most of the time. Eventhough, you work hard you will be screwed big time. Too much bureaucracy and politics to get promoted.

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