Amazon Software Developer Intern (SDE) reviews

4.1

77% would recommend to a friend

(343 total reviews)
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56% approve of CEO

81% positive business outlook

Software Developer Intern (SDE) employees have rated Amazon with 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 343 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer Intern (SDE) professionals have an excellent working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer Intern (SDE) professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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343 reviews
2.0
Aug 10, 2025

Too big for its own good

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Pros

- Exposure to large-scale distributed systems and complex architecture - Opportunities to work with talented engineers (less of this lately as all the good ones are being driven out by incompetent managers) - High ownership and autonomy in some teams

Cons

- Increasing focus on delivering projects at all costs, leading to technical debt and unstable systems - Frequent leadership changes and shifting priorities without a clear long-term vision - Multiple overlapping projects competing internally rather than collaborating - Promotions often tied to quick wins, leaving long-term maintainability for others to fix - Recent gen AI push with tracking of tool usage, commit counts, etc. that appears to be a setup for upcoming layoffs

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