Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE2) reviews

3.3

48% would recommend to a friend

(509 total reviews)
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Andrew Jassy

23% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer (SDE2) employees have rated Amazon with 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 509 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineer (SDE2) professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineer (SDE2) professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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509 reviews
5.0
Sep 18, 2017

super cool workplace

Recommend
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Pros

Awesome technologies Very smart people Fast pace - Agile Very cool problems to solve everyday in terms of cloud computing and scalability Very flexible switching groups policy - internal process is amazing for this.

Cons

On-call rotation on most of the teams. (24/7 support for customer impacting issues)(in general 1 week every 6 weeks) Some managers are inexperienced. Some groups are lacking diversity. You can easily find yourself in an Indian mostly org or Chinese mostly org.

3.0
Sep 18, 2017

SDE II

Recommend
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Pros

You can have a massive impact.

Cons

Work life balance, company culture, etc...

3.0
Sep 1, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Many teams working on interesting projects. Minimal "red tape" for implementing or improving features. Many teams which own high impact components - good visibility when improvements are made.

Cons

Management usually prioritizes aggressive project timelines above software and design quality. Many teams have a lot of support work for their components. Noisy and crowded work environment.

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