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      Amazon Software Development Engineer II reviews

      3.5

      58% would recommend to a friend

      (954 total reviews)
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      19% approve of CEO

      53% positive business outlook

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      Software Development Engineer, II employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 954 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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      954 reviews
      2.0
      Oct 25, 2014

      Looking for a job after your internship completed? Look somewhere else. Seriously.

      Software development engineer ii
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      Pros

      You'll learn how the corporate world works. The hard way.

      Cons

      Remember all those nice perks during the internship? You won't get them anymore. No free lodging, no free food, no corporate events, no free tickets to the movies, no work-life balance, no fun. Instead you'll get: an on-call duty (it really messes up your daily/nightly routine), below market pay, stock that never vests and a vague career path. Great deal, right?

      5.0
      Oct 21, 2014

      Excellent place to be

      Software development engineer ii
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      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Working with newer technologies, working on products that are relevant to customers, good work and life balance, great area to live and have a family.

      Cons

      Dev-ops means carrying a pager from time to time, getting paged at 2 am to fix an issue with your team's software or services.

      4.0
      Oct 18, 2014

      A generally good place with some specific organizations doing great work

      Software development engineer ii
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      Pros

      Amazon has a high variability in talent and the kind of stuff it works on. There are places which are working on old legacy and so-yesterday problems and either re-writing them or deprecating old stuff. Same time there are organizations within Amazon that work on really cutting edge technology. You get to choose where you want to work. The best organizations also attract the best talent and are the most challenging places to work. The other places are not so great in terms of talent, but it may be a good choice if one is interested in working on relatively safe things and/or interested in a career in management. You can get paid well either way you go

      Cons

      There is stiff competition and work pressure can sometimes get to you. Managing a career is not so easy and there is not enough transparency. You can find out though if you talk to folks who have been around a long time

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