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
4.0
May 14, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Amazon provides good environment for learning and improving your skills. You get to work with a lot of amazing co-workers. The environment is fast-paced and the pay is good.

Cons

Easy to burn out if you aren't careful. You need to learn to push back on unreasonable requirements and timelines. Focus on key deliverables and avoid taking on more things than you can handle.

1.0
May 11, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

If you want to reskill into a different specialty, such as moving between cloud, embedded, hardware, networking, or frontend roles, a big company like Amazon is great. Internal transfers are easy.

Cons

You will be at the end of a long, intentionally vague chain of command, things will happen without great reasoning or explanation, and you might spend an enormous amount of time on very silly endeavors

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