Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE) -1 reviews

3.5

52% would recommend to a friend

(453 total reviews)
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37% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer (SDE) 1 employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 453 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineer (SDE) 1 professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineer (SDE) 1 professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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453 reviews
4.0
Apr 5, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Great work, impactful work, latest tech stack, lot of ownership & lots to learn & grow

Cons

Mostly depends upon team to team but politics can be there, competition within employees create toxic environment, promotion not entirely based on work, some luck & support is also needed

3.0
Mar 29, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Good compensation as per industry standards

Cons

1. Lot of toxic teams with high focus on Deliverables and no regards to personal time and employee's health(not worth the pay) 2. After a certain time you will be stuck in using similiar tools to solve that particular bussiness problem as they have a pre defined scale which requires certain suits of tool. Once you learn all of it growth is limited in that team. 3. Always go for team which generate revenue or else you'll be stuck in team which is struggling to get sponsored and justify it's size to leadership. aka only care about things moving fast to prod and no team bonding of employee mental health care or learnings of the org.

3.0
Mar 25, 2025

SDE 1 Pay

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

* good Work being done for customers

Cons

* Bad WLB. Long work hours.

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