Amazon Software Development Engineer II reviews

- Can be long hours. This is mitigated if you communicate with management frequently about progress and realistic expectations. Hint: you can always push back on deadlines. - often Too much ambiguity in requirements (just means lots more communication and before coding). Amazon almost prides itself on dealing with ambiguity -- it's sometimes taken to the extreme. - Everythig is constantly in flux, I have come back from a few 2 day vacations to find my project had morphed while I was gone. This is due to the pace of the workplace.

The situation in the team mostly depends on your manager - there are good teams (where people want to work) and there are bad teams. Internal transfers is not always an option - if you have a good relationship with your manager there is no need to a transfer, but if the relationship is bad it could be difficult to get a good review for the transfer.