Amazon Senior Software Engineer reviews

3.5

62% would recommend to a friend

(681 total reviews)
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Andrew Jassy

42% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

Senior Software Engineer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 681 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Senior Software Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Senior Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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681 reviews
3.0
Dec 13, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Decent pay, you learn a lot, there's good engineers, and moving teams is easy

Cons

Culture is not great, lot of timeline pressures on projects, leadership challenges in many teams

4.0
Dec 10, 2025

Solid Career Growth

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Amazon provided lots of opportunity to grow, get promoted, and move around in the organization. The culture was professional and mature. Amazon LPs are not just tag-lines, they are deeply integrated into daily operations. The compensation was outstanding.

Cons

Amazon didn't seem to fully appreciate the nuances of my industry which was a relatively new market for the corporation. It didn't seem to be a great fit for the corporate culture and I think that made it diffult to find a successful approach.

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