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Amazon Web Services Software Development Engineer (SDE) reviews

3.4

53% would recommend to a friend

(448 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 448 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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448 reviews
1.0
Apr 23, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Very fast paced - Lots of unique challenges - Large-scope projects

Cons

- Extremely limited growth opportunities unless you play lots of office politics and are willing to undermine teammates - L7+ are allowed to retaliate and discriminate without consequences - Poor compensation compared to expected output - Terrible Work-Life balance and unwillingness from upper and middle management to improve

2.0
Apr 19, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great variety of work domains. Interesting things to work on across the board

Cons

Fat management layer (middle and top). Frequent reorgs. Hard to nail down a promotion path with constantly moving goal posts.

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