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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954 reviews
4.0
Feb 4, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Interesting work with smart and talented people. Great pay. Work from home on occasion.

Cons

The bias for action company principle outweighs the others. This result is the creation of more value at the expense of letting existing value decay - this translates to a legacy code base. It results in a people having been there the longest being the sole proprietors of the intellectual property being developed there. The rest of us get to work without much hope for growth in the short term. This is especially exacerbated by the completely custom systems there. The learning curve is steep.

4.0
Jan 29, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Working with smart talented people - Solving challenging problems at scale only handled by few companies. - Good pay

Cons

- Some orgs have terrible work life balance - On-call can be troublesome at times when you get paged at inconvenient times. - Perks are few - Not many resources/ direction on how to grow your career. No levels in between SDE 2 to SDE 3 and getting promoted to SDE 3 takes time.

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