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Amazon Web Services Software Development Engineer reviews

3.5

58% would recommend to a friend

(337 total reviews)
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Matt Garman

32% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer employees have rated Amazon Web Services with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 337 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon Web Services is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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337 reviews
5.0
Apr 4, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Team environment is very productive and the team is really helpful.

Cons

People straight out of university need to learn a lot to get on track with the work.

4.0
Mar 31, 2023

Work hard and have fun

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great culture and people, interesting projects

Cons

The company is cutting costs and letting some people go. Raises haven't been keeping up with inflation.

1.0
Mar 30, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Compensation is competitive when you first get hired, however their are few opportunities for a substantial raise once hired. Even when transferring to teams internally. - Talented coworkers

Cons

- Managers have unrealistic expectations. Causes work-life balance to suffer. - Hire to fire. Amazon requires managers to fire around 6% of their staff annually. That number is on the rise. - Managers would rather fire you and hire someone new than mentor and grow. - Broke trust after going backwards on work from home policy.

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