Amazon Software Development Engineering reviews

3.5

57% would recommend to a friend

(6,778 total reviews)
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Andrew Jassy

40% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineering employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 6,778 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineering professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineering professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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7K reviews
4.0
Jan 10, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Fast Paced Environment Quick to get your changes in production Working on multiple projects Gain experience in short amount of time

Cons

Poor work life balance Having to deal with multiple teams to get sign off on approaches

2.0
Jan 10, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Great Pay - Great learning opportunities - Great impact of work

Cons

- 0 Empathy & respect towards employees, management treats employees as a working machine not like a human - Layoffs, Layoffs, Layoffs - Enforced RTO - The worst benefits in the market and acts very cheap

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