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
4.0
Oct 1, 2024
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Pros

You get to work with some of the brightest and kindest engineers you'll ever find. Projects are completely collaborative, impactful, and rarely (if ever) involve office politics - which is a very rare combination.

Cons

Management has lost its head, and stopped focusing on long-term strategies in a desperate attempt to compete with other tech companies. Engineers in my org are being regularly encouraged to "work nights and weekends", while also being asked to include multi-hour commutes into their daily routine. A focus on productivity, quality, making decisions based on data rather than intuition, and building something you can be proud of used to be the norm. It's what made Amazon special. But that's no longer the case - now it's just about meeting arbitrary unrealistic deadlines and flogging engineering teams until something that technically meets the requirements (mostly) gets produced. Many engineers are struggling with the whiplash.

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