Amazon Software Development Engineering reviews

3.5

57% would recommend to a friend

(6,808 total reviews)
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40% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineering employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 6,808 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineering professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineering professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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7K reviews
4.0
Jul 14, 2026
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Pros

Amazon really varies from org to org, think about it as several smaller companies within a single one. Now that I’ve left, I really appreciate the processes and SOPs Amazon has in place for projects starts, technical design, incident response, promotions, etc. It’s much easier to get things done/achieve your goals when you speak the same language with the people around you in that sense.

Cons

You get used to internal tooling and processes and might find it hard to adjust to a new role.

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