Amazon Software Development Engineer reviews

3.5

54% would recommend to a friend

(3,337 total reviews)
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Andrew Jassy

38% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Non Software Development Engineer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 3,337 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Non Software Development Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Non Software Development Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the IT (Information Technology) industry (3.9 stars).

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3K reviews
3.0
Aug 5, 2025

AWS SDE2

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Pros

Interesting problems, large scale, good learning opportunity.

Cons

Lots of of bureaucracy and politics, double-think, gaming of internal metrics. Weird attempts at thought control.

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