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Amazon Web Services Software Development Engineer (SDE) reviews

3.4

53% would recommend to a friend

(447 total reviews)
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Matt Garman

52% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer (SDE) employees have rated Amazon Web Services with 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 447 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineer (SDE) professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon Web Services is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineer (SDE) professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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447 reviews
5.0
Dec 31, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Gain extensive experience in developing and maintaining highly scalable distributed systems. - Be constantly challenged which gives you an opportunity to become a better engineer. - Pay is pretty good.

Cons

- WLB is not great. - Expect to put in more than 40 hours/week of work. - Sometimes, internal politics and bureaucracy can undermine progress significantly.

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