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      Amazon Software Development Engineering reviews

      3.5

      57% would recommend to a friend

      (6,778 total reviews)
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      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 6,778 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
      Aug 12, 2012

      Amazon - Software Development Engineer

      Software development engineer
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      Pros

      Good challenging work. Smart people around in team. Usually very less maintenance work. You can learn many technologies. Even distribution of work between Indian and US employees.

      Cons

      Always you are forced to complete tasks in time which is less than actually required, and hence long working hours needed to meet the deadlines.

      3.0
      Aug 10, 2012

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      Software development engineer
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      Pros

      Most teams at AMZN are packed with smart people who just want to build awesome stuff and do it cheaply and efficiently. Management honestly cares about customers and the bottom line at the same time. The community of people there will jump to help a colleague with any problem, professional or personal, with a smile. Many more teams care about work-life balance and operational happiness in the last few years.

      Cons

      Some teams are bogged down with uninteresting, unskilled hangers-on who want to get their salary as quietly as possible, finding as much work to do as possible whether or not it is relevant or needed. The performance measurement process is so broken it's humorous in retrospect. Managers can skew results in any direction they want. Jealous peers can kick someone out of their team with little effort or repercussions. Internal politics rarely but unavoidably create extra work and stress that ends up being for naught.

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