Amazon Software Developer reviews

3.5

56% would recommend to a friend

(6,310 total reviews)
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Andrew Jassy

42% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

Software Engineer Developer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 6,310 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineer Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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6K reviews
3.0
Jul 24, 2026
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Pros

- Work with intelligent and driven people - Potential for interesting projects - Excellent tooling for software - Nice name to have on resume

Cons

- Can have a toxic and backstabbing culture, especially as you are promoted up - Retail/AWS are pretty obviously no longer "day 1" culture. Way fewer chances being taken, anything not making an immediate profit is in danger. Little vision and even less appetite for risk. - Potentially bad oncall/work life balance, very team dependent - Compensation does not match peers, very stock based and the "average" comp increase is usually less than inflation

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