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
1.0
May 29, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

The pay was good. The stock is on fire.

Cons

I've never been so micromanaged in my life. Not all former engineers make good people managers. I exited in the company while in the Pivot program, and the program is set up so that you will leave "voluntarily" so that you cannot get unemployment, although it is 100% not voluntary. They have a lot of policies of this nature to try to get around spending money on employees. Diversity is non-existent on certain teams.

4.0
May 21, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great place to grow as a SDE. With so many teams and large scale, there are plenty of engineering challenges. Amazon is not known for hand holding, as a SDE you will be able to own projects from design, implementation, testing, release, to maintenance.

Cons

Minimal benefits compared to other tech companies. Some teams have high ops load.

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