Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE) reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(3,151 total reviews)
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48% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer SDE employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 3,151 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineer SDE professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineer SDE professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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3K reviews
2.0
Oct 3, 2025
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Pros

1. Base Pay + RSU 2. Good Work (based on team) 3. Best for freshers to start their career as learning curve and pay is good

Cons

1. Management is toxic. 2. In chennai Device related orgs so much favouritism and internal politics, bias based on gender, racism. 3. They have yearly URA quota, so they will target and put in performance plan even within 5months joining in the team. Some SDM's won't have technical knowledge on the project but because of toxic management employee gets stuck with unfair performance improvement plan. 4. Good Managers do exists but on very less percent at Amazon.

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