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
Nov 16, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Working with incredibly smart people. If you are passionate and eager to learn from peers this is definitely pros. Bias in actions. Emphasis on customer and working backwards. Opportunities for internal transfer.

Cons

Oncall can be a bit taxing and can harm the work-life balance depending on the issue level that the team is experiencing.

4.0
Nov 15, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

* management always helps you to optimize your time, i.e. managers will usually protect your time, so you can focus on completing your tasks * people you work with are extremely talanted and organized * you can expense whatever you need to get the job done * there is a focus on team improvement, e.g. I was assigned to a new team that was really struggling to meet goals in the beginning. About a year later, team was running like clockwork.

Cons

* on-call is Hell and you will often get unreasonable pages in the middle of the night that you can't really do anything about, but you still have to own that issue and drive it to completion * meetings up the #@!. Out of 40 hours per week, 15-20 hours could be taken up in meetings. Even worse, meetings don't come in blocks, so your time is fragmented and getting anything done becomes a challenge * relationships with third parties are sometimes strained. If there is a third party involved in what you ship, e.g. you ship an app on a specific model of TV or STB, SDEs often have to deal with that third party directly, due to unavailability from TPMs * sometimes you have to work weekends to meet goals

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