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

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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5.0
Jun 4, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Amazon has an engineering culture and some of the best engineers in the world. This makes it an attractive place for me; because you can learn something from everyone. I also like that the teams are very independent and are empowered to make their own decisions in terms of technical architecture as well as business priorities. This is similar to a startup, but you are still working for a large company with all its benefits: stable environment, better work/life balance, opportunities to switch teams and attend conferences, etc.

Cons

Its culture may not be for everyone. Amazon expects everybody to share its leadership principles. If you are not very customer focused (customer obsession), or if you want to stay in your comfort zone (ownership), you may not be successful here.

1.0
May 29, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The pay was good. The stock is on fire.

Cons

I've never been so micromanaged in my life. Not all former engineers make good people managers. I exited in the company while in the Pivot program, and the program is set up so that you will leave "voluntarily" so that you cannot get unemployment, although it is 100% not voluntary. They have a lot of policies of this nature to try to get around spending money on employees. Diversity is non-existent on certain teams.

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