Amazon Sr Software Development Engineer reviews

3.2

50% would recommend to a friend

(119 total reviews)
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Andrew Jassy

34% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

Sr Software Development Engineer employees have rated Amazon with 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 119 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Sr Software Development Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Sr Software Development Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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119 reviews
4.0
Jun 2, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Smart people, very disciplined organizations, everything is data driven, everything is done with intention. Continuous improvement is ingrained in everyone and everything.

Cons

The data-driven nature of EVERYTHING, including (but not limited to) your own career development makes people do things for the sake of data rather than delivering product. Mechanisms drive people to over-complicate everything.

5.0
Jun 1, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Especially in AWS there are very few places where you get to engineer systems that work at such a high scale. Completely different tier of distributed system challenge. I have always been able to set a reasonable work-life balance.

Cons

Right now compensation is still primarily stock-based and the current price is well below recent grant prices. Most teams require oncall rotation which can be challenging. Working with other teams to get on their roadmaps for an integration is sometimes hard.

4.0
May 26, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

1 year in Amazon equals 2-3 years in other companies. I grew a lot as an engineer. Lots of smart people. Interesting tech problems.

Cons

Individualistic culture - every team for themselves, every person for themselves.

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