Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE) II reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(4,809 total reviews)
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44% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer (SDE II) employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 4,809 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineer (SDE II) professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineer (SDE II) professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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3.0
Mar 13, 2021

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Recommend
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Pros

AWS, building highly scalable fault tolerant systems

Cons

Lots of work, low work life balance, less pay

5.0
Mar 13, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1. Very interesting projects 2. Great people to work with 3. Great pay and good perks

Cons

1. WLB can take a hit depending on the team. Work in AWS is mostly heavy.

1.0
Mar 13, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good pay. You learn a lot. Lots of opportunities. Good for workaholics Good if you are good at politics

Cons

- No team culture. You are on your own. - Most managers are bad - No work life balance. You have to work weekends and 12 hours per day. - You don't get support from your team. - The deadlines are too aggressive. - They don't gie you time to learn anything even if you are not experienced with their technology. - Lots of arrogant people.

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