Amazon Software Developer Engineer (SDE) reviews

3.6

60% would recommend to a friend

(3,158 total reviews)
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48% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Software Developer Engineer (SDE) employees have rated Amazon with 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 3,158 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer Engineer (SDE) professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer Engineer (SDE) professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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3K reviews
3.0
Dec 6, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good Pay Good flexibility to transfer teams internally - also allows the opportunity to change roles

Cons

Stability - many teams have reorgs quite often so priorities keep changing PIP culture

4.0
Dec 4, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good learning at a fast pace. Well payed as per market standard

Cons

Since the company is working on some internal framework, there is no full understanding of end-to-end connectivity among services. Work pressure.

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