Amazon Sr. Software Engineer reviews

3.5

64% would recommend to a friend

(729 total reviews)
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Andrew Jassy

44% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

Sr. Software Engineer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 729 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Sr. Software Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Sr. Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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729 reviews
1.0
May 21, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Brand name. Work with some decent people.

Cons

- Technological wise, Amazon is still in the 1990s. The infrastructure and the software development tools are too painful to use. - The productivity is super low comparing to anywhere else I have worked before, not because of bad people. We have some decent engineers, but the Amazon process and tools are super terrible. It kills people. - If you work for Amazon more than 3 years, you are out of touch with the industry and become cocky, arrogant and ignorant at the same time.

4.0
May 15, 2018

Very Very Driven

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

This is the place where employees can make things happen and affect outcomes. The culture allows you to as high as required to solve your problems as long as you have data. Most of the work is highly critical and VP level visibility is common

Cons

It is a very Darwinian work place; there is constant change and resetting of direction to the extent that real progress is slowed down; everybody is always in "every man for himself" fight mode. You need to develop a militant mindset to thrive here.

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