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Amazon Web Services Software Developer reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(863 total reviews)
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Matt Garman

47% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

Software Developer Engineer employees have rated Amazon Web Services with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 863 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon Web Services 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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863 reviews
2.0
May 29, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Used to be a good place. Had lots of talented people and top-tier technology. Used to be able to work from home and used to have a lot of budget for eating out and buying things and traveling. It was a great place for innovation. Again “used to”. If you asked me a couple years ago when I joined, I would probably rate it 4 to 5 stars.

Cons

Five day RTO. People are getting really toxic because of the layoff here and there. No promotion, bad pay raise, bad RSU refresh.

3.0
May 27, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Pretty good pay although base salary is a little lower and more of your TC is dependent on sign on/RSUs - Fast paced development culture with potential to learn a lot about industry - not as bad of a pip culture as people expect

Cons

- most things are team dependent: work culture, oncall difficulty, etc. - oncall can be pretty brutal depending on your team and some teams have very chill oncalls - no free/discounted meals and not much other benefits like free Amazon prime provided

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