Exciting Scale and Challenge - Senior Software Development Engineer Amazon Employee Review

5.0
1 June 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Especially in AWS there are very few places where you get to engineer systems that work at such a high scale. Completely different tier of distributed system challenge. I have always been able to set a reasonable work-life balance.

Cons

Right now compensation is still primarily stock-based and the current price is well below recent grant prices. Most teams require oncall rotation which can be challenging. Working with other teams to get on their roadmaps for an integration is sometimes hard.

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5.0
20 Mar 2026
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Pros

Medical/ dental/ vision insurance, mental assistance, 401k, lawyer assistance, Career choice, VTO, PTO, vacation time

Cons

Most AMs have avoritism among employees. We get mandatory extra time (now is calling "voluntary" but you have to go when it is schedule) at the end of the year, what makes difficult for some of us when we have kids and they're really rigid about it.

5.0
10 Jan 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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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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