Amazon Software Engineer reviews

3.5

56% would recommend to a friend

(6,293 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 6,293 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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6K reviews
3.0
Jun 26, 2012

About Amazon com

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Pros

Is a very good learning place. If you are with a good manager, your career path will be very good

Cons

Very bad work life balance. In case your relation with manager is not good, your hard work is all wasted, they will screw you way big time, and no one can stop it as well. Any kind of feedback, even annual peer reviews might backfire, specifically if your manager is not on your side. Recently there are too many people who have been hired, and if you are exactly looking to work with real Amazon people, there aren't many. 80% chances that your neighbor is also in Amazon for less than a year.

4.0
Jun 15, 2012

SDE

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Pros

There are lots of big data sets with opportunity to apply machine learning techniques. There are many talented engineers making this a good place to grow technically.

Cons

There is an oncall rotation that all sdes share. It has pluses and minuses. You learn to build more robust systems, but at the expense of getting woken up in the middle of the night.

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