Amazon Software Developer reviews

3.5

55% would recommend to a friend

(6,269 total reviews)
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Andrew Jassy

43% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Software Developer Engineer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 6,269 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon 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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6K reviews
3.0
Feb 27, 2026
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Pros

It's a decent place to start one's career at, you get a lot of exposure to the inner working of a large corporate environment, and can learn a lot of things if you are paying attention

Cons

Overall culture is abrasive and aggressive, although there are plenty of talented people, recent hires during the pandemic have shown markedly lower overall bar. There were L5s we hired in my team during the pandemic that don't know some basic CS concepts like concurrency, DB indexing, etc.

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