Good, but a lot depends on your team - Software Engineer III Amazon Employee Review

3.0
7 Apr 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Stable Payroll; - Company has great perspective; - Stock keep growing; - You will work with the biggest companies as your customers; - Free access to some of learning resources(acloudguru, linux academy, etc..); - Phone compensation up to 50$ / month; - Uber/Lyft compensation up to 170$ / month;

Cons

- Noisy oncall; - Promotion process in weird. It doesn't matter what you did and how, but how many people you showed your face; - Internal tools are terrible. You will have to rely on not reliable toolbox. 99% Availability for internal services? Not even close; - Managers and engineers all tries to push new service to get promotion. As result a lot of services doing basically the same thing and lack of integration between them; - Leadership principles is something works only for interviews and promotion process. Once you join you will not see any of these in your collegues; People are too tied doing firefighing every day.

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5.0
12 Jun 2026
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Pros

Great room for growth, amazing learning opportunities for early career

Cons

Problems don't get fixed quickly. Red tape, but you can work through it.

5.0
10 Jan 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Really smart people, a lot of opportunity for growth, always encouraged to be innovative, think big, and create something new. Competitive salary and benefits with other major tech companies. 100% self motivating work environment. No dress code and 4 legged friends are welcome.

Cons

You have to be self motivated. NO ONE will hold your hand and tell you that you're doing a great job. If you need constant affirmations from management, this company isn't for you.

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