Amazon Software Development Engineer reviews

3.5

54% would recommend to a friend

(3,342 total reviews)
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38% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 3,342 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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3.0
Feb 2, 2015
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Pros

Ability to participate in community actions like updating build tools to work with new languages. It is easy to get help from another team especially if you are good about networking. The leadership model is open to doing things differently. Builder Tools makes some really nice stuff.

Cons

Easy to become siloed. Easy to lose track of mission and take on too much ownership. Trouble tickets are not taken seriously. Quantity > Quality is enforced on some teams. Many core tools are very old and written in Perl.

4.0
Jan 27, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Work with smart people Forefront of technology Fast growth, iterative development Good compensation Flexible work schedule

Cons

Vacation days are few in number, only around 5 a year. It's growing very fast, needs to adjust to the growth better.

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