Amazon Software Developer reviews

3.5

55% would recommend to a friend

(6,242 total reviews)
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43% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 6,242 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 Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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4.0
Aug 31, 2015

Software Engineer

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Pros

Amazon is a great place to work at if you're young and looking to learn a lot. Everything moves quickly. Very few people at Amazon will come off as not intelligent, and some of the people are extremely talented.

Cons

Projects and workload are very group dependent. My experience at Amazon is great, but I know some people who have terrible managers that do not understand people.

4.0
Jul 28, 2015
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Pros

First if all, as with most big companies, your experience at Amazon will vary greatly with your business unit, and your team. Mine are great. I work in the Kindle org, and overall it's a great place to work. The work is definitely interesting, I've worked in backend systems where the challenge is reliability and dealing with big data. The work-life balance is great, and I almost never spend more than 9 hours at work. When I do it's almost always because I'm working on something that's really interesting to me and I just want to get more done that day. I really buy in to the whole customer centric thing. We really do make choices that we thing would be better for the user (than the alternatives) even though it may be more painful for us in the short run.

Cons

The requirements still change very often and you'll find your sprints often interrupted with something that just HAS to happen. The company of so huge that there is often overlap between what different teams are doing. It can help to just get things done quickly, but often it seems like a waste when one of the solutions is eventually discarded.

3.0
Jul 12, 2015

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Pros

Good problems to work on

Cons

Frugal company not for all ppl

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