Amazon Software Developer Engineer I reviews

3.5

56% would recommend to a friend

(6,300 total reviews)
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Andrew Jassy

42% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

Software Developer Engineer I employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 6,300 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer Engineer I professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer Engineer I professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
Jul 18, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Cutting Edge Tech Stack Got to learn how big tech companies operate at large scale Got to learn how mature systems look like

Cons

PIP Culture - Managers are incentivized to put their employees on PIP (if they don't they will be targeted for performance reasons) Culture of unrealistic deadlines leading to engineers delivering half baked products in production. This leads to years of tech debt combined with hellish oncall.

4.0
Jul 18, 2026

My first job

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Building with AWS resources, great environment

Cons

Sometimes you get slowed down by allignment with other teams instead of techinal work

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