Amazon Software Development Engineer II reviews

If you're on a team with bad managers you will hate life. At least there is a new policy allowing you to transfer ASAP, which you should do. (- culture/values) Things are a bit too team dependent. I'm on a team I like. There are other teams that cannot retain people at all because their managers straight up suck at their jobs. (- senior management)(- culture/values) Comp is decent but not competitive with google/facebook/uber. (- comp rating) Crunch time is a management failure so you can expect to see it a few times a year. (- work/life)

Depending on your team and your project, the work-life balance for software developers and software development managers can be very poor (frequent on-call rotations, 50+ hours per week norm, unreasonably demanding management). This varies greatly from team to team. Some teams are excellent at providing a good balance, and others are meat-grinders. It depends so much on your management chain. Can your manager negotiate appropriate boundaries such that other teams do not take advantage of you? Is your manager obsessed with arbitrary delivery dates, and will he or she pressure the team at all costs to meat them? Does your manager know how to put together detailed multi-quarter delivery plans? If the answers are "yes", "no", and "yes", then you should be alright.