Amazon Software Development Engineer II reviews

3.5

58% would recommend to a friend

(954 total reviews)
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19% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer II employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 954 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineer II professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineer II professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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954 reviews
4.0
Jan 20, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Competitive pay for engineering positions, some areas have relatively good work-life balance (but this can be hit or miss), benefits package is decent, as of writing is very open to flexible or remote working, massive company with lots of distinct organizations and therefore a large variety of different things to work on.

Cons

High turnover in some areas, work-life balance can be bad at times, promotion process is painful and promotions can be infrequent, frequent on-call duties that can require working outside normal business hours, can feel like working for a massive corporation in the typical bad ways.

5.0
Jan 19, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The Amazon cloud SW development tooling is excellent, supports multiple programming languages, and it's used by almost all teams developing cloud services at Amazon. That means really low friction to creating the core code (the stuff that adds value), minimal time with ops, and a high emphasis on operational excellence.

Cons

Hard to build bond with my team, but that is probably mostly due to remote development instead of in-person.

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