Amazon Software Developer reviews

3.5

55% would recommend to a friend

(6,261 total reviews)
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43% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Software Developer Engineer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 6,261 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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6K reviews
5.0
Dec 14, 2015

SDE for Consumer Website

Recommend
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Pros

I work on the Amazon Retail Website. Get to work on a wide spectrum of issues. Generally receive praise for good work.

Cons

Expected to take part in an oncall cycle, whereby you can be paged to sign in and address an issue 24/7 for two weeks at a time (on most teams).

5.0
Nov 24, 2015

Good Company

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Customer focus draws great employees.

Cons

Poor benefits compared to the competition.

3.0
Nov 8, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It is very challenging environment, a lot of codes need to be implemented fast and deployed fast to meet customer needs. The whole company is very customer obsessed and always ready to respond to customers as highest priority. It is a great place where you can learn a lot in a short period of time. When you need helps, a lot of people, a lot of departments are willing to help you get things through. Most of the people are smart and super diligent. My manager probably only sleep for 4-5 hours and constantly working everywhere.

Cons

All condemnation to work life balance is wrong, because there is NO LIFE at all. After a 1.5 months of working 12 hours a day, 6 days a week to meet a hard deadline without payroll for extra hours, now the consolation is I can work at home on Sundays or on weekday nights till 11pm after I leave work at about 6. Although, my manager work even longer and my colleagues are similar.

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