Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE2) reviews

3.3

48% would recommend to a friend

(509 total reviews)
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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 1, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Great talent pool Interesting problems You get to watch what you build directly impact the customer and see it grow much faster than companies of this size

Cons

Benefits are mediocre compared to competing comoanies

4.0
Aug 31, 2017

SDE

Recommend
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Pros

Work culture is awsome. You get work with really awesome people and every day is a challenging day.

Cons

too much work sometimes and politics in company environment

4.0
Jul 26, 2017

Great Company, Better Office

Recommend
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Pros

- Wide variety of challenging problems to solve and plenty of work to be done - The compensation is top notch. Even as a college grad SDE you'll probably be paid what a senior engineer is paid at the other large companies in Detroit. If you stay for a few years you'll be treated with much stock. - Office is very friendly and there's plenty of community-building events driven by a great office manager - Yes, you can transfer to Seattle just fine should you want to do that

Cons

- Monthly On call rotations with typically pretty heavy operational load. - Sometimes recently it seems like empire building is the true motivation behind some decisions (though it can always be framed with some LP like Customer Obsession)

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