Amazon Software Development Engineering I reviews

3.7

51% would recommend to a friend

(555 total reviews)
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Andrew Jassy

40% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineering I employees have rated Amazon with 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 555 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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555 reviews
3.0
Sep 18, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Excellent pay and benefits - Very cool technology - Generally good managers (senior management is another story though) - Flexible hours on some/most teams - Most coworkers are friendly and helpful, with very few exceptions

Cons

- Incompetence on some teams (forgotten deadlines, lack of ownership etc) - Teams are encouraged to release prototypes as production software - Testing is extremely rare/sparse - Unreasonably high expectations come from upper management - Teams are too small to effectively handle their workloads, resulting in high tension and stunted productivity - Weak development hardware - Terrible internal software development tools (fighting with them every day!)

5.0
Dec 18, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Amazing technology company, loads of opportunities, get a chance to work with senior engineers/principals, freedom about the work we do.

Cons

There are no benefits like food, other perks.

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