Amazon Software Development Engineer II reviews

3.6

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 3.6 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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5.0
Feb 14, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Fast paced development and release of products and features. It has 'It's the proposal and not the proposer' culture.

Cons

Requires dedication to the team and to the company, especially around holidays. Some teams have on-call rotation that can page you any time of the day.

3.0
Jan 30, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You will be always busy and learn new areas. There are no significant boundary. The code base are open. You can access most of the company's code.

Cons

The operation work are heavy in some sort. On-call.

4.0
Jan 28, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Amazon is a cool place to work. Amazon prides itself of being obsessed with customer service and being data driven. This clarifies the decision making process for all employees at all levels and enables individuals to make decisions in the best interest of the customer. Amazon gives large responsibilities to all employees regardless of tenure/role in the hopes that the best ideas are driven forward.

Cons

The downside to Amazon's philosophy is the lack of consistent direction. There are many teams trying to build new things for their customers and that leads to different agenda's competing for resources. That combined with the very high turn over rate results in teams who are very inefficient due to having underdeveloped processes and inexperienced engineers. This all leads to an environment where you can get great V1 products out the door quickly, but those products often grow stale very quickly due to the fact that the team can not maintain that initial momentum.

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