Amazon Sr. Software Engineer reviews

3.5

63% would recommend to a friend

(729 total reviews)
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44% approve of CEO

64% 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 Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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729 reviews
3.0
May 17, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

The scale of the problems Amazon needs to solve are often unique. If you like large scale distributed systems you'll love working at Amazon. There's really very other places where you'll be able to have as much fun. Hours can sometimes be long, but well worth it.

Cons

Advancement is quick for the first couple of levels, but you can hit a proverbial wall once you get a more senior position.

4.0
Jan 11, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Real corporate culture -- it comes from the top, it is consistent, it is communicated, it makes sense, it makes customers happy. People really refer back to it when making decisions. Kind of tough on the employees but you can't have everything. If you perform, stock options are excellent. If you want to be a leader and you can do it, you can get extremely educational access to incredible top people.

Cons

Stressful. Work-life balance is poor in many groups. High operational burden in many groups. Benefits are bare minimum -- their philosophy is they would rather give more grants to reward the productive, then to have benefits that go to all employees.

4.0
Sep 19, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

awesome large scale problems to work on.

Cons

hit or miss - depends on what group you end up in. platform groups have been awesome technically, but you're far from the customer. app groups are stressful, but you have the pleasure of building customer facing stuff.

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