Amazon Software Development Engineer reviews

3.5

54% would recommend to a friend

(3,330 total reviews)
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Andrew Jassy

37% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 3,330 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 Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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3.0
May 1, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Strong resume builder Good for building high ownership and responsibility Learning and growth opportunities

Cons

Hard to balance work and life. It is always work work work until before getting sleep. On-call work is challenging. Frequent page at 2am, 3 am. Hard to get promoted from SDE2 to SDE3. Not very straightforward to get promoted at this point. High performance pressure. RTO 5 days is challenging if commute time is long. Base salary hasn't increased well recently even with promotion.

2.0
May 1, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Compensation is obviously better than most companies that aren't big tech

Cons

It's common to join a team where you get worked like a horse. Not all teams are bad, but it is common.

5.0
Apr 21, 2025

Amazon

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Excellent Work Culture and great place to work in

Cons

Amazon bands are too large compared to other companies

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