Amazon Software Development Engineer reviews

3.5

55% would recommend to a friend

(3,335 total reviews)
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39% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 3,335 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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3K reviews
3.0
Mar 16, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Great experience at learning range of technologies from backend servers, to scripting, to front end website development.

Cons

No base pay increase, so no incentive to remain after initial signing bonus give out in 2/3 years. Also, very cheap when providing resources (e.g. 2nd monitors, etc.) to employees.

3.0
Mar 9, 2014

AWS review

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You can use cutting-edge technology at AWS. You will have a great insight of many services at AWS. Amazon is a good start point for young professionals.

Cons

Oncall rotation is very frequent and the workload is heavy. Not many female engineers at AWS. Amazon treats its customers better than its employees. Work-life balance is not good.

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