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      3.5

      51% would recommend to a friend

      (3,320 total reviews)
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      Andrew Jassy

      35% approve of CEO

      49% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.0

      Compensation and benefits

      4.0

      Career opportunities

      3.6

      Diversity & inclusion

      2.9

      Culture & values

      2.7

      Senior management

      2.6

      Work/Life balance

      Software Development Engineer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 3,320 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
      3.0
      Jun 16, 2008

      An okay place to work, has it's issues, but also has its positives.

      Software development engineer
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      Pros

      There are lots of varying opportunities, some really smart people, and the problems they are trying to solve are huge.

      Cons

      The management, lack of office space, the management, poorly executed products, insular teams that are so overwhelmed their first instinct is to push back on any request, lack of communication, lack of QA, no real documentation of any kind, and lack of a standard development platform.

      3.0
      Jun 15, 2008

      Easy come easy go.

      Software development engineer
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      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Because Amazon is not focused on previous experience, it is easy to get hired right out of college. Amazon is an environment where you can easily grow and learn a lot.

      Cons

      Despite the above, Amazon has a VERY high turnover. This is due in large part to the fact that there is nowhere to advance to. It is virtually impossible to achieve meaningful advancement without leaving the company.

      2.0
      Jun 13, 2008

      Legacy code green-card sweatshop from hell

      Software development engineer
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      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Surviving the abuse will give you unbelievable skills. Most of your peers are incredibly smart, competent, and talented people who will teach you all the things you didn't learn in school.

      Cons

      They don't tell you that "TDD" stands for "Ticket-Driven Development". The whole company lives and dies by the trouble ticketing system, but generally the accepted software engineering best practices are ignored. Since there is such an amazing trouble ticket system and nothing gets done unless it's a ticket, managers force death marches to launch awful code that is debugged one high severity ticket at a time by whomever is on-call. The attrition rate speaks for itself.

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