Amazon Software Development Engineer II reviews

3.6

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 3.6 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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4.0
Jun 6, 2017
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Pros

Note, experiences at Amazon vary lot depending on the team you're in. I've worked for the Relational Database Service team for 2+ years. - gain experience building a service that manages hundreds of thousands of database instances (lots of challenges at "Amazon scale") - gain experience working with other AWServices. - opportunities to get your hands dirty on low level database engine code. - medium operational burden -No hard deadlines. The focus is always on building a quality product.

Cons

- The usual; stingy on perks. E.g. far from free food, sometimes there are no decent food options. - Social/team activities are rare. But again, some teams/locations are better at this than others.

5.0
May 30, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Amazon is a great place to learn new technologies, to get hands on experience in design, development, support. It is also great place where everyone is owner and contribute towards companies vision.

Cons

Amazon is too much frugal in all its aspects. They tripled transportation cost to employees but never increased employee health, internet benefits. But most of the employees employees really don't care about it much.

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