Amazon Software Development Engineer II reviews

3.6

58% would recommend to a friend

(953 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 953 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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953 reviews
3.0
May 20, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It's a big company so you have the freedom to move teams and areas. There are a lot of interesting projects across the company to work on. Pay is good.

Cons

Your work life largely depends on your manager, so it can vary from team to team, but burnout is common. Your pay will not go up even if the company is talking about how well it's doing. Expect your RSUs to slow down greatly around 5 years. As a developer at Amazon, you are in charge of the whole lifecycle. Everyone handles design, development, monitoring, testing, and maintenance.

3.0
May 18, 2025

Solid

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great team. Learn a ton, especially working in AWS. and hard working but reasonable manager. Friendly teammates as well.

Cons

Larger organizational has plenty of finger pointing. RTO5 is inconvenient. Feel like learning in terms of code quality is plataeuing.

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