Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE2) reviews

3.3

53% would recommend to a friend

(506 total reviews)
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26% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer SDE2 employees have rated Amazon with 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 506 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineer SDE2 professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineer SDE2 professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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506 reviews
3.0
Mar 10, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Learn fast - trial by fire - Fast SDE2 promo - top pay for canadians - scale you can't find at any other Canadian company

Cons

- managers are hit or miss, it's hard to tell if they are any good until it's too late - Amazon LPs are cool in concept, but are miss used to take as many shortcuts as possible, e.g. bias for action and delivers results often matters way more than insisting on high standards, or deep dive - too much bureaucracy, too many processes, no clear ownership, you require escalations for basically everything since teams only look out for their own KPIs, not for the rest of the org

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