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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4.0
Dec 26, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1. Lot of growth opportunities 2. Individual responsibility and ownership 3. High exposure to new technology stacks like cloud, microservices etc 4. End to end service lifecycle from requirements, development, launch and maintenance 5. Cross functional collaboration with business and engineering teams

Cons

1. On-call can be really hectic some times 2. Work life balance is not great, timings get hectic near launches 3. Not much perks or comp for overtime

4.0
Dec 21, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

At Amazon you get to work with very smart people. There are a ton of different, interesting things going on at the company, so if you want to try something new you can transfer internally.

Cons

Lacks all the flasky perks that a Google or Meta would have. Also, because the company is so large decisions and hiring get done in a very process oriented way; exceptions don't get made often. While I had a good experience due to my great manager and teammates , Amazon can be cutthroat is you end up on a team with bad culture

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