Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE1) reviews

3.6

67% would recommend to a friend

(568 total reviews)
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Andrew Jassy

55% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer (SDE1) employees have rated Amazon with 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 568 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineer (SDE1) professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineer (SDE1) professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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568 reviews
4.0
Mar 6, 2017

SDE Salary at A

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good pay, high scalability work.

Cons

No snacks, no food in the kitchen

2.0
Mar 1, 2017

Intense

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Prestigious, lots of exposure to lots of different technologies, freedom to get your work down however works best for you.

Cons

Extremely intense. Very hard for an inexperienced developer to get up to speed. The ecosystem is an enormous house-of-cards collection of interconnected services.

5.0
Feb 12, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Lot of learning will get to work on lot of technology, can work independently.

Cons

I would say work life balance is not that good.

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