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      Amazon Software Development Engineer-1 reviews

      3.5

      54% would recommend to a friend

      (374 total reviews)
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      30% approve of CEO

      56% positive business outlook

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      Software Development Engineer 1 employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 374 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineer 1 professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineer 1 professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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      374 reviews
      4.0
      Apr 5, 2025

      All depends upon team you join, mostly US teams build original products

      Sde 1
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      Pros

      Great work, impactful work, latest tech stack, lot of ownership & lots to learn & grow

      Cons

      Mostly depends upon team to team but politics can be there, competition within employees create toxic environment, promotion not entirely based on work, some luck & support is also needed

      3.0
      Mar 29, 2025

      Good pay, bad work life balance

      Software development engineer (sde) -1
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good compensation as per industry standards

      Cons

      1. Lot of toxic teams with high focus on Deliverables and no regards to personal time and employee's health(not worth the pay) 2. After a certain time you will be stuck in using similiar tools to solve that particular bussiness problem as they have a pre defined scale which requires certain suits of tool. Once you learn all of it growth is limited in that team. 3. Always go for team which generate revenue or else you'll be stuck in team which is struggling to get sponsored and justify it's size to leadership. aka only care about things moving fast to prod and no team bonding of employee mental health care or learnings of the org.

      4.0
      Mar 24, 2025

      Good for early career but difficult to progress

      Software development engineer (sde) -1
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      - learn a lot about a variety of technologies very quickly - the bar is high. 95% of people you work with are very capable - good compensation (probably the best you can get in Brisbane as an SDE)

      Cons

      - they will squeeze you for everything you're worth - very hard to progress within the company for all software levels - success at the company is dictated a lot by the manager you get - RTO (return to office)

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