Amazon Sr. Software Engineer reviews

3.5

65% would recommend to a friend

(730 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 730 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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730 reviews
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)

2.0
Mar 18, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

a lot of customer facing features

Cons

Pay are less than avg

4.0
Mar 17, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

UK is less stressful than US

Cons

your manager has absolute power over the team projects, assignments, priorities and performance reviews.

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