Amazon Siftware Engineer reviews

3.5

57% would recommend to a friend

(7,091 total reviews)
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43% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

Siftware Engineer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 7,091 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Siftware Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Siftware Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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7K reviews
4.0
Sep 19, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

awesome large scale problems to work on.

Cons

hit or miss - depends on what group you end up in. platform groups have been awesome technically, but you're far from the customer. app groups are stressful, but you have the pleasure of building customer facing stuff.

1.0
Jul 14, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Profitable company. Things move fast. You can see your code changes in production in no time. Looks good on resume. Cubes have a nice view if you get a lucky seat. Some, not all, of the technology is cool.

Cons

Obsessively driven co-workers with no lives. You will be expected to work 45-50 hrs a week just to keep up. October to Dec 25 is treated as crunch time because of the holidays. Mandatory Oncall from 1 of every 4 weeks to 1 of every 8 if you are lucky. Developers are 30% tech support for their service, 40% business analyst and 30% developer. You will spend far more time learning the intricacies of shipping boxes through UPS than working on "cool" things and you will be expected to feel passionately about those boxes. Standard "lean" process speeches from senior management over and over. Priorities change at the last minute. Chaotic undirected environment with everyone competing for air time. You have to learn a thousand buggy in-house made tools You will be a cog in the machine. Squeak and you will be replaced by a new college grad. There is a reason nearly everyone there is under 30, think about it.

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