Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE) 2 reviews

3.5

68% would recommend to a friend

(350 total reviews)
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Andrew Jassy

42% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer (SDE) 2 employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 350 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineer (SDE) 2 professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineer (SDE) 2 professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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350 reviews
2.0
Mar 13, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

If you get on well with your management chain you can probably even coast or tweak for optics and survive for years if not forever.

Cons

Being able to play politics games matters more than being technically good.

5.0
Mar 9, 2026

Overall Nice Work Experience

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

good pay, variety of work, opportunity to move outside India

Cons

some teams have very bad work life balance, Difficult path to promotions from SDE-2 onwards

3.0
Mar 3, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Challenge works day to day.

Cons

RTO 5 is required now

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