Amazon Software Development Engineering reviews

3.5

57% would recommend to a friend

(6,788 total reviews)
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40% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineering employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 6,788 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineering professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineering professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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5.0
Nov 19, 2013
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Pros

Intense work life, definitely learnt a lot of stuff. Great location, great people around. Very easy to talk to senior engineer

Cons

bad work life balance. Some teams has very bad on call policy, might need to go to office at 3:00 am.

4.0
Nov 18, 2013

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Pros

There are large scale computer science problems to solve and lots of intelligent people to solve them with.

Cons

The ship it now and fix it later culture doesn't help the on call burden.

4.0
Nov 17, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

- True agile development - Great option as a first company. Work with some of smartest people you can find. - No team hierarchy. Everyone is heard and their opinions are valued.

Cons

- Expectation to deliver in a small time frame leading to hacky solutions rather than long term maintainable solutions.

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