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
Feb 2, 2017

SDE1

Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

Great manager, teammates to work with and lots of stuff to learn.

Cons

Less vacation time and fast pace. No free lunch or dinner.

4.0
Jan 14, 2017

Master New Grad Package

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

big company, various groups that can be joined, so many opportunities.

Cons

potential heavy workload, no food

3.0
Jan 8, 2017

Good learning worst culture

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You will meet and work with some of the great software engineers, learn about processes and software development standard practices.

Cons

They have the worst culture. Cut throat competition. Oncall is big pain.

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