Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE2) reviews

3.3

48% would recommend to a friend

(508 total reviews)
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Andrew Jassy

23% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer SDE2 employees have rated Amazon with 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 508 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineer SDE2 professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineer SDE2 professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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508 reviews
5.0
Feb 13, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- Challenging complex problems to solve. - Team dynamics are fun if you're lucky. - Experience is transferable to any other team in the company.

Cons

- Your existence in the company is not merit based, but at the whims of the org and company leader's random arbitrary metric that they make up. - Oncall can be a little exhausting, but enjoyable. - Your org is constantly shifting and changing, and the vision is sometimes unclear or mutable.

1.0
Feb 12, 2026

Amazon

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1. Fast moving culture 2. High growth

Cons

1. Fast movement culture - brings toxicity and bad politics. 2. Seniors/Managers hold a lot of power. 3. Expectation to work 14+ hrs a day. 4. AI is being taken as a golden key to unlock anything, leadership wants to use AI in everything without thinking. Leading to churns, scalability and maintainability concerns which are then again blamed upon the SDEs for not maintaining high bar.

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