Amazon Software Development Engineer II reviews

3.6

59% would recommend to a friend

(956 total reviews)
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22% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer, II employees have rated Amazon with 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 956 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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4.0
May 21, 2020
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Pros

Great place to grow as a SDE. With so many teams and large scale, there are plenty of engineering challenges. Amazon is not known for hand holding, as a SDE you will be able to own projects from design, implementation, testing, release, to maintenance.

Cons

Minimal benefits compared to other tech companies. Some teams have high ops load.

5.0
May 9, 2020
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Pros

Love the culture. Love the immediate growth and responsibilities and ownership. Love my manager. Love my colleagues. Very fun environment even when owning one of the most stressful products.

Cons

You will be doing a LOT of devops work as a software engineer because : A- Amazon is VERY frugal (even a little with your raises) B= It will teach you ownership of your code deployments. CSTech is a little too much into the "customer obsession", which is good for some people, but if you cannot handle the stress and the constant busy oncall, then apply to AWS instead. You will have oncall no matter what though.

4.0
Apr 23, 2020
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Pros

You get to work with pretty smart people. Stock bonuses.

Cons

Internal processes seem to slow the development, I guess I prefer a start-up like atmosphere. Some people might also find themselves often working over-time.

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