Is Amazon a good company to work for as a Software Developer?

Software Developer professionals working at Amazon have rated their employer with 3.5 out of 5 stars in 6,228 Glassdoor reviews. This is an average score with the overall rating of Amazon employees being 3.5 out of 5 stars. Search open Software Developer Jobs at Amazon now and start preparing for your job interview by browsing frequently asked Software Developer interview questions at Amazon .

Does Amazon pay Software Developer employees well?

Software Developer professionals rate their compensation and benefits at Amazon with 3.9 out of 5 stars based on 6,228 anonymously submitted employee reviews. This is 5.3% better than the company average rating for salary and benefits. Find out more about Software Developer salaries and benefits at Amazon .

How happy are Software Developer professionals working at Amazon?

55% of Software Developer employees at Amazon would recommend their employer to a friend. This rating has decreased by 4% in the past 12 months. Software Developer professionals have also rated Amazon with a 2.8 rating for work-life-balance, 3.5 rating for diversity and inclusion, 2.9 rating for culture and values and 3.8 rating for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Amazon?

Warehouse Associate (11101) , Warehouse Worker (6898) , Associate (6204) , Software Engineer (6126) , Area Manager (5668) , Software Development Engineer (SDE) (3495) , Fulfillment Associate (3404) , Software Development Engineer (3164) , Customer Service Representative (3039) , Program Manager (2470) , Operations Manager (2288) , Customer Service Associate (2213) , Sortation Associate (1860) , Manager (1455) , Process Assistant (1421)

What are the pros of working at Amazon according to real employee reviews?

"Pay is good but not worth the asks made from IT and how they are treated" ((in 19468 reviews)); "good benefits you have to get good benefits because everything else at amazon is terrible!!" ((in 13162 reviews)); "A lot of information that is useful and great people to go to when you need something" ((in 7765 reviews)); "It's a very huge company all around the world and it keeps satisfying its employees with a good salary." ((in 5730 reviews)); "The work culture is good and I never felt that I was new in the company" ((in 4763 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Amazon according to real employee reviews?

"You do work bloody hard and very long hours so there is no work life balance" ((in 10044 reviews)); "You work long hours and not as many breaks as you would like or need at times" ((in 7048 reviews)); "Bad management is very common here and very common to have managers who are out of touch with tech." ((in 6634 reviews)); "There are also bad managers that are rude and do not care about the feelings of their associates." ((in 5159 reviews)); "The company advertises peak season as the long hours and hard push but it really happens routinely throughout the year." ((in 2407 reviews))

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Amazon Software Developer reviews

3.5

55% would recommend to a friend

(6,228 total reviews)

Andrew Jassy

43% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

3.9

Compensation and benefits

3.8

Career opportunities

3.5

Diversity & inclusion

2.9

Culture & values

2.8

Work/Life balance

2.8

Senior management

Software Developer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 6,228 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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6K reviews

3.0

Feb 27, 2026

It's okay, not terrible, not great either

Software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

It's a decent place to start one's career at, you get a lot of exposure to the inner working of a large corporate environment, and can learn a lot of things if you are paying attention

Cons

Overall culture is abrasive and aggressive, although there are plenty of talented people, recent hires during the pandemic have shown markedly lower overall bar. There were L5s we hired in my team during the pandemic that don't know some basic CS concepts like concurrency, DB indexing, etc.

2.0

Feb 27, 2026

Great pay, terrible work life balance

Software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

+ High salary + Gaining experience with AWS resources + Ability to deploy and scale cloud infrastructure without too much worry about costs + Leveraging unlimited AI tokens + Lots of amazing tooling for AI incorporated into many processes eliminating pain points + Ability to own many hats and participate in lots of product discussion + Lots of documentation + Great healthcare benefits + Cross team collaboration + Free coffee everyday + Free IT vending machine for extra basic supplies + There are processes to prevent breaking glass of data and/or followup procedures when things go awry + Because of Amazon's hiring process, you tend to work with reliable, intelligent people + Free bananas + Lots of convenient, centralized abstractions to eliminate spin up time (code, pipelines, service to service communication, etc) + Nearly unlimited resource to base off of to speed up deployment

Cons

- Low total of paid holidays - 4 year vesting strategy is mainly the incentive to stay - Terrible work/life balance to meet unrealistic deliverable deadlines for a person/team, often resulting in more hours to meet deliverable and thus setting the standard for deliverables going forward - Having to heavily document and write a majority of your own successes to prove why you deserve to be promoted - Return to office 5 days a week - With AI, the expectation to deliver has increased far beyond the expectations that people are meant to handle - Everything is prefaced with a design document or a one-pager - Decisions made by higher ups often don't get propagated down until the day of the announcement (RTO, layoffs, etc) - Great talent laid off to support business decisions despite being one of the highest net profit grossing company - No Amazon Prime, discounts at Whole Foods, or free food at the office - No semblence of employee culture as everyone is focused on deliverables and neglecting social aspect due to work culture - Not enough desks to support RTO (some conference rooms were turned into desks/bullpens)

3.0

Feb 25, 2026

Good company

Software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Get to work with great minds, interesting projects

Cons

No stability constant reorganization and layoff fear

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