Amazon Software Development Engineer II reviews

3.6

58% would recommend to a friend

(955 total reviews)
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19% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer II employees have rated Amazon with 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 955 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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955 reviews
2.0
Jul 12, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

* Some pockets of teams excellent environments * Benefits of a large company * internal tooling * learning events and resources (if you can find them)

Cons

* promotions to senior levels still largely driven by org politics * Managers are poorly trained with little data-driven resources/supports * standards slipping for new employees, with very little formal training supports * lot of bloat and growth in middle management * slowdowns from too much separation into cross-team "coop-tetion", 'analysis paralysis' from lack of common behavioral data/metrics tooling * increased siloing and lack of investment in common platform/tool standards * decrease of standards and deprecation of past reliable tools for ones with prettier UX but less functionality

4.0
Jul 9, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The opportunities to do interesting work are there at Amazon. The pay and work/life balance is good. Management is very good from my experience

Cons

The benefits are not great. Conveniences which are common at other companies like a gym or snacks/drinks are often not provided. The company makes a lot of questionable decisions under the guise of "frugality"

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