Amazon Software Development Engineering I reviews

3.7

59% would recommend to a friend

(557 total reviews)
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40% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineering I employees have rated Amazon with 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 557 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineering I professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineering I professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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557 reviews
4.0
Mar 21, 2016
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Pros

There are many great engineers working for Amazon, you can learn a lot while making decent money.

Cons

Burn rate at Amazon is very high, but it is very team specific. The average engineer stays only 1 1/2 years before moving on, which makes knowledge transfers and long term projects more difficult than they should be.

2.0
Mar 19, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

I was an SDE I at amazon for 1.5 years. The projects are at amazon scale, and the resources exist to tackle any problem. There are many smart engineers who bring valuable industry experience to their designs and feedback. Generally meetings were productive. Career advancement opportunities exist if you are proactive about finding them.

Cons

Those who succeed at amazon have a poor work/life balance. It's a joke amongst the engineers that you can't work at amazon and have a life, and it stopped being funny when I realized it is true. Projects are chaotic and requirements are always in flux, making maintainable code impossible unless you are willing to put in the extra effort to stay on top of everything. I witnessed several accounts of career growth being squelched because of the chaotic culture. Several colleagues of mine were not given well-deserved promotions because either (1) they had been re-org'd and denied the opportunity to complete a design project or (2) people come and go so often that someone with valuable feedback might be gone before they give input.

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