Amazon Software Developer reviews

3.5

54% would recommend to a friend

(6,227 total reviews)
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41% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

Software Developer Engineer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 6,227 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
3.0
Apr 8, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

good people around. Fast paced environment high growth -- -- -- -- -- -- --- --- --- -- --- --

Cons

high attrition rate on call duty no work life balance and on top no award even if you work 24*7

2.0
Mar 21, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Seemingly better pay. Stocks (But you may not stay here for 4 years to reap the benefits). Smart people.

Cons

They hire you as Software "DEVELOPMENT" engineer and making you do everything : QA, Ops etc. They have short project deadlines (<1 month sometimes). This translates to excruciatingly long hours of work. It drastically impacted my family life. Pager supports keeps you awake on a friday night. I used to see fellow Amazonians carrying pager to museums, parks with their family. They may have to stop having fun and work on thier laptop at parks. The compensation sounds interesting for first two years and then falls flat. They talk about frugality all the time which means hardly any office get-togethers. I would discourage Amazon as your future workplace unless work is everything you have in life. Not a engineer friendly company. I moved to bay area and a very happy person now working for Google.

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