Amazon Sr Software Development Engineer reviews

3.2

50% would recommend to a friend

(119 total reviews)
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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
2.0
Jan 5, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

U get exposed to complex business Anything that u do can have a huge impact on business U get to work on large scale systems & data U get to work with above average engineers

Cons

Work has become too slow when compared to how it was 5 yrs ago Bureaucracy has set in Too many processes & everything takes time (many ppl review even a simple Deployment/CR) Defensive planning in everything, not willing to take any risk in planning/execution Engineers have become too lazy & not showing much ownership as they are allowed to change teams easily, managers r focussing on keeping emps happy to retain them, even they give very relaxed effort estimates. So, not a great company for fast movers, it's loosing it sheen.

5.0
Dec 8, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Mobility is encouraged, engineers can switch teams at very high frequency (I will not advice that though, as per me engineers should try a team or role for at least six months) - Deliveries and results are appreciated, executors can grow easily and just verbal claimers cannot survive here - Hands-on career tracks are deep, software engineers can grow all the way up to distinguished engineer e.g. James Gosling

Cons

- Engineers or Managers looking for a limited hour job may not get so. Work is at times demanding though work life balance is encouraged and possible.

4.0
Sep 14, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

My skills, network, career and compensation have never stopped growing at Amazon. I’ve achieved great work-life harmony.

Cons

Your manager is 90% of what matters at Amazon. I’ve seen more than one person get completely screwed when a re-org gave them a bad manager. I’ve seen people I look up to driven out of the company, when less than a year before they were given the highest possible rating by a different manager. Amazon does have a system that lets people appeal manager decisions, but it’s sort of a coin toss.

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