Amazon Software Developer reviews

3.5

56% would recommend to a friend

(6,280 total reviews)
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43% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Software Developer Engineer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 6,280 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 Tecnologia da informação industry (3.9 stars).

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6K reviews
2.0
Dec 5, 2025

Small cog, big machine

Recommend
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Pros

Stock compensation is great, depending on how the market is doing

Cons

Hard to have an impact outside of your tiny little team. Enormous amount of tech debt. Stupidly onerous promotion process which encourages over-engineering for the sake of building up your portfolio.

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