Amazon Software Developer reviews

3.5

55% would recommend to a friend

(6,277 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 6,277 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 Informatique industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
Jan 9, 2026

Cost Cutting Leader

Recommend
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Pros

Big work scope for your level

Cons

CEO is only focused on replacing workers (including software eng) with AI, bad WLB, cost-cutting to salary & benefits, 5 day RTO

4.0
Jan 9, 2026

Amazon Prime Video

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Get to work on something I actually use

Cons

Sometimes long hours but overall pretty chill space

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