Amazon Senior Software Development Engineer reviews

3.5

45% would recommend to a friend

(108 total reviews)
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12% approve of CEO

37% positive business outlook

Senior Software Development Engineer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 108 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Senior Software Development Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Senior Software Development Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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108 reviews
4.0
Jul 26, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Highly qualified people to work with Lots of good processes to learn from Gives a very good breadth in tech as you will need to know about lot of platform besides yours

Cons

Tech may not always be cutting edge: depending on the org you are working in Work life balance can be challenging at times if you do not prioritize well Some bureaucracy is creeping in which makes progress slow and frustrating

5.0
Jun 26, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Data driven priority and product decisions from management. Developers are expected to understand the business and exercise judgement. High impact work that helps millions and millions of people. Senior technical staff are great mentors, some of the best in the industry in their areas of expertise. Excellent compensation, especially the stock, which apparently never stops going up.

Cons

Long hours and hard work - working at Amazon is not easy. High impact comes with high stakes for mistakes. Quality of management is highly variable across teams, my current manager supports me and wants to grow the team. Some managers fire their junior developers in order to cover up their own mistakes.

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