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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
3.0
Nov 3, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

When things are going well there's a lot of autonomy, great opportunities to develop interesting things, and a lot of respect for work/life balance.

Cons

As soon as anything goes wrong, or if the org shifts to put a poor manager in your reporting chain (which happens frequently), things get ugly fast. Arbitrary firings or under-performance punishment, micro-management of responsibility with curtailing of power to do anything to meet those responsibilities, and more. Internal promotions are hilariously terrible. If you don't get the precisely calibrated project (which are always in short supply) that has just the right people taking careful notice of it, you're far better served boomerang'ing.

3.0
Oct 26, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Pay is really great and they make you work for it really hard

Cons

I had the Worst Work Life Balance there as there's too much work and too many and also so busy on-call shifts

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