Amazon Software Development Engineer reviews

3.5

53% would recommend to a friend

(3,326 total reviews)
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37% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 3,326 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the IT (Information Technology) industry (3.9 stars).

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3K reviews
1.0
Dec 20, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

High Pay, Good Tech stacks, Can move in teams

Cons

Bad Work Culture, Long Work hours, Team members cannot be trusted. Un-regretted attrition 15% per year

3.0
Dec 18, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

+ compensation + talented people + extremely large-scaled projects (if it's interesting for you)

Cons

- too many people who don't like working here. people are constantly leaving - terrible WLB - daytime/nighttime/weekend oncalls affect you in long-term perspective - 5 days from the office - toxicity - total frugality - bad engineering tools - too fast pace and too aggressive deadlines

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