Amazon Software Development Engineer II reviews

3.6

58% would recommend to a friend

(956 total reviews)
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19% approve of CEO

53% 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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956 reviews
4.0
Sep 26, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

- Lots of learning - Verbose tooling - Great place to work and enjoyable (org and team dependent)

Cons

- Higher workload than comparable companies - AWS has a higher on-call load in general - Fewer benefits compared to other FAANG companies

2.0
Sep 21, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Great compensation - Great internal tools to increase engineers productivity - Great products with great value

Cons

- Toxic culture - Stressed management that will lead to stressed engineers - stressful and unrealistic deadlines - Big gap between SDMs and SDEs - SDMs are not aware of the low-level details - AWS has a lot of ops and support work - very few development work

4.0
Sep 12, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great compensation A lot of great people to learn from Large scale problems to work on Build some of the most impactful software in the world (AWS)

Cons

Lots of work Can become overburdening very quickly High expectations that don't seem grounded or considerate of individuals work capacity Some managers are definitely not as welcoming or inclusive as others A lot of burdening processes that get in the way of doing good work (meetings, bureaucratic processes)

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