Amazon Software Developer reviews

3.5

56% would recommend to a friend

(6,280 total reviews)
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43% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Software Developer Engineer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 6,280 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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6K reviews
4.0
Nov 14, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Support by manager, interesting projects

Cons

No peer pressure makes people getting lazy

2.0
Nov 14, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

you can learn various tech, and the way to handle politics from smart people.

Cons

Too much competition, and politics. Manager is the king. Your TC will be less than newly hired engineer if you stay more and more years.

4.0
Nov 13, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Pick the right team and right leadership, you can actually learn something without sacraficing WLB. Amazon has one of the best developer toolings among big tech companies

Cons

Decisions are business driven so usually product team has bigger say in deciding what to do.

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