Amazon Software Developer reviews

3.5

54% would recommend to a friend

(6,199 total reviews)
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42% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 6,199 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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6K reviews
4.0
Nov 2, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good salary. Growth in stocks. Good development culture.

Cons

Inexperienced dev managers Frugal comparatively to the other big techs On-call rotation Lack of testers

5.0
Oct 21, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Getting to work on new technologies, Flexibility in work environment. Genius people around you. Compensation given to the new developers

Cons

Clarity of job role. Communication with the management and peers.

2.0
Sep 16, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-small teams - pizza teams -stocks and pay is good -smart peoples (though a lot of them are primadonna)

Cons

-lack of work/life balance - you are expected to work crazy hours and meet arbitrary deadlines set by the management -management lacks respect for the engineers - often they yell at employees -management promotes engineers who are loud and obnoxious -operation support - you have to carry pager 24 hours that sucks the life out of you -lack of tools/support - extremely bad tools support for build, deploy, IDE -poor computer hardware - you have 5 years old machine -dirty bathrooms and carpet - Amazon is known for being cheap and it saves every penny even on cleaning the bathrooms.

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