Is Amazon a good company to work for as a Software Development Engineering?

Software Development Engineering professionals working at Amazon have rated their employer with 3.5 out of 5 stars in 6,787 Glassdoor reviews. This is an average score with the overall rating of Amazon employees being 3.5 out of 5 stars. Search open Software Development Engineering Jobs at Amazon now and start preparing for your job interview by browsing frequently asked Software Development Engineering interview questions at Amazon .

Does Amazon pay Software Development Engineering employees well?

Software Development Engineering professionals rate their compensation and benefits at Amazon with 4.0 out of 5 stars based on 6,787 anonymously submitted employee reviews. This is 7.8% better than the company average rating for salary and benefits. Find out more about Software Development Engineering salaries at Amazon.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Amazon?

Warehouse Associate (11106) , Warehouse Worker (6905) , Associate (6205) , Software Engineer (6139) , Area Manager (5680) , Software Development Engineer (SDE) (3502) , Fulfillment Associate (3405) , Software Development Engineer (3171) , Customer Service Representative (3041) , Program Manager (2475) , Operations Manager (2291) , Customer Service Associate (2215) , Sortation Associate (1864) , Manager (1454) , Process Assistant (1421)

What are the pros of working at Amazon according to real employee reviews?

"Pay is good but not worth the asks made from IT and how they are treated" ((in 19311 reviews)); "good benefits you have to get good benefits because everything else at amazon is terrible!!" ((in 13173 reviews)); "A lot of information that is useful and great people to go to when you need something" ((in 7766 reviews)); "It's a very huge company all around the world and it keep satisfying their employees with good salary and accommodation" ((in 5825 reviews)); "The work culture is good and I never felt that I was new in the company" ((in 4871 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Amazon according to real employee reviews?

"You do work bloody hard and very long hours so there is no work life balance" ((in 10100 reviews)); "You work long hours and not as many breaks as you would like or need at times" ((in 7030 reviews)); "Poor management can lead to unnecessary stress and even impact your standing within the company." ((in 6629 reviews)); "There are also bad managers that are rude and do not care about the feelings of their associates." ((in 5177 reviews)); "The company advertises peak season as the long hours and hard push but it really happens routinely throughout the year." ((in 2439 reviews))

Amazon Software Development Engineering reviews

3.5

57% would recommend to a friend

(6,787 total reviews)

Andrew Jassy

40% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

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Software Development Engineering employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 6,787 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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7K reviews

3.0

Sep 24, 2013

Smart people. Neat projects. Terrible place to work.

Software development engineer ii

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

People that know what they're doing. Lots of interesting projects floating around.

Cons

Constant pressure to get more done faster. Oncall shifts. Being pulled in different directions by different projects. Constantly having to trouble shoot systems you don't fully understand without time to learn it.

4.0

Sep 24, 2013

Amazing scale, great learning opportunity

Software development engineer ii

Recommend

CEO approval

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Pros

The scale at which AWS operates is just unparalleled. One gets to learn a lot through direct on-hands experience. Fast-paced environment. You get to see your product/code ship fast.

Cons

Pager duty is a bit of a drag, because you can get paged in the middle of the night. Depending on the team, pager duty may end up being for a day, every few days or a week every few months.

5.0

Sep 24, 2013

One of the best places to work for as a Software Engineer

Software development engineer

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CEO approval

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Pros

Amazon has a great international presence and as such employs a vast variety of people. As a result, one meets and interacts with people from myriad backgrounds and nationalities, one gets to travel and experience this multi-national flavour. The company has a very rigorous attitude towards software development. There is a well-established discipline of testing and deployment. Amazonians are very particular about how every feature/upgrade effects the customer, whether internal or external. As a hard core technology company, it uses state-of-the-art technologies and provides various opportunities in various aspects of software engineering. The company also provides internal training if one wishes to learn some new technology.

Cons

Many teams are split into multiple sub-teams based at different geographical locations, in fact in different countries. The difference in time-zone and the inability to conveniently meet face-to-face introduces delays and sometimes, miscommunication. Since every team is mandated to support their software and almost all software is in the form of internal services, every team member has to perform on-call duties for addressing emergency bugs. This can be stressful as an emergency bug report can come in any time during the day or night. Also since most teams are small, the on-call rotation is quite frequent.

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