Amazon Software Development Engineer II reviews

3.5

58% would recommend to a friend

(955 total reviews)
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Andrew Jassy

19% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer II employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 955 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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955 reviews
4.0
May 17, 2021
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Pros

- You can learn a LOT - You can work on huge projects with lots of users and lots of data (terabytes, petabytes...) - You can use AWS almost limitless. Other companies usually worry about costs. Here I'm working on a team with an annual AWS cost around ~$1M... You can experiment a lot with that kind of budget - No overtime, no problem taking days off and PTO

Cons

- large turnover in the teams, after 1.5 years I am the only one left from the team that I joined of 7 developers - the leadership principle called "Frugality": it affects employees as well... don't expect huge raises and bonuses unless you are willing to work 150% - internal frameworks, tools: we use lots of internally developed tools and frameworks, you will have to learn a LOT, and you won't be able to use that at other companies

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