Amazon Software Development Engineer reviews

3.5

52% would recommend to a friend

(3,317 total reviews)
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34% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer I employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 3,317 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineer I professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineer I professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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3K reviews
3.0
Dec 18, 2025
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Pros

+ compensation + talented people + extremely large-scaled projects (if it's interesting for you)

Cons

- too many people who don't like working here. people are constantly leaving - terrible WLB - daytime/nighttime/weekend oncalls affect you in long-term perspective - 5 days from the office - toxicity - total frugality - bad engineering tools - too fast pace and too aggressive deadlines

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