Amazon Software Developer reviews

3.5

56% would recommend to a friend

(6,271 total reviews)
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Andrew Jassy

42% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 6,271 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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6K reviews
4.0
Dec 6, 2025

Good company

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Fast paced work Learning opportunities

Cons

Work culture at times could be bad

2.0
Dec 5, 2025

Small cog, big machine

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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.

5.0
Dec 5, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Fun environment with great people

Cons

Busy and a lot of work to be done

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