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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3.0
Sep 9, 2022

Tough but rewarding

Recommend
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Pros

- you learn a lot because you're like a small fish in a big pond - good compensation (in 2022) - FAANG notoriety - huge ownership - high standards (depending on the person)

Cons

- low work culture - pretty strict with time off - high standards (depending on the person)

2.0
Aug 30, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

All projects expect huge scale. I would say compensation, but there are nuances.

Cons

Hard dependency on Seattle office hours (9 hours difference) forces to stay late to get things done. People working on promotion tend to work 10-12 day, weekends. Because of the two years of plague most of the teams work remote, thus the quality of onboarding is dramatic. Base salary compensation is not competitive for what they ask. Late meetings (they tend to start in 17:00-19:00 range lasting easily till 21:00). Teams understaffed, 40-60% time dedicated to meetings and sync-ups where you get pushed to do more random stuff for US team, while your project is suffering.

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