Amazon Software Engineer reviews

3.5

56% would recommend to a friend

(6,299 total reviews)
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42% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

Software Engineer, employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 6,299 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer, professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineer, professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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4.0
Jul 4, 2015

Pretty solid

Recommend
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Pros

Bleeding edge technology and projects Switching teams is encouraged Hard problems to solve

Cons

Management doesn't have a clue about quality engineers. They promote people who they are buddy buddy with, even if they write unmaintainable / unscalable code. They also give out the big projects based on this flawed criteria. No wonder the average time there is about 2 years.

3.0
Jun 28, 2015

Ugh

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

I learned a lot in my time at Amazon.

Cons

Not enough bathrooms, pathologically 'frugal'.

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