Amazon Sr. Software Engineer reviews

3.5

65% would recommend to a friend

(729 total reviews)
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Andrew Jassy

47% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

Sr. Software Engineer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 729 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Sr. Software Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Sr. Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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729 reviews
5.0
Mar 25, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

* Ample opportunity to work with smart people but choose your team wisely. Leave, if you don't feel like you're growing. * Decent benefits.

Cons

* Not every senior leader is technical so some may need a lot of handholding. * Lots of mid-level managers so there's a lot of bureaucracy. You will be writing tons of documents. * Difficult to get promoted.

4.0
Mar 23, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Overall positive environment, nice culture, appreciates hard work but also demands it. Offers a nice quality of life, but requires time to get there.

Cons

Some teams are not code oriented, and software engineers end up not doing coding.

3.0
Mar 22, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Work with smart people, build software systems at Amazon scale, operational excellence is a priority

Cons

Lots of operational overhead to maintain a service, on call burden is real, some weak managers (poor communicators or just not transparent)

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