Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE) II reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(4,803 total reviews)
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45% 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 4,803 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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5K reviews
3.0
Jan 17, 2021
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Pros

People (esp. Software engineers) - are helpful, friendly, talented and dedicated. Standard Perks - Good Salary, Flexible work timings (kind of) Mature tech stack - You don't need to work on small common problems. Someone would have already solved/abstracted it out already.

Cons

OnCall Policies - (You are expected to lookup/mitigate/resolve issue , even if its 3 am) Reviews are dependent on direct manager (mostly) Expectations of doing work on off-hours (sometimes - around 30% of times) Unheallthy justifications on basis of leadership principles. (in a lot of scenarios) Infamous things like (Dev Plan, PIPs) [Tip : Ask some people who left amazon ]

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