Amazon Software Development Engineer II reviews

3.6

58% would recommend to a friend

(953 total reviews)
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Andrew Jassy

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 953 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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953 reviews
4.0
Jun 5, 2014
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Pros

Technology we deal with are amazing.Things we do have a great impact on the customers and this gives a satisfaction(There is no point if you do implement something great but nobody uses it). Co-workers here are really amazing, they have sound knowledge about the stuffs they deal with. This also makes you active all time, solving new interesting and challenging problems

Cons

Company doesn't provide much perks

3.0
Jun 4, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

I am being very well paid in the industry, I do work enough to earn it, but

Cons

Getting a promotion in this company is very hard, and you have to be a lot about politics, which I'm not. When I say something, its the truth, that you like or not, and that does not fly well over here. Management looks everywhere to please the upper management, and projects don't get finished or get delayed a lot because other projects arrive and they need to get done faster in order to please upper management. Nobody has the guts to say that doing so will hurt the current long term projects. The long term vision is lacking to say the least. Money in a short term is very important to the point that it rarely matters to invest now to harvest in 2 years.

4.0
Jun 4, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great People. Lots of interesting projects and teams to join. I never had to deal with politics (although I'm sure my managers did).

Cons

On-call support and development environments that take an eternity to setup. Sometimes it seemed like I could never get anything done between configuring a new service or dealing with on-call support.

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