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
Oct 3, 2015

Its OK

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Exposure to complex distributed architectures and wonderful internal tools and deployment platforms. Exposure to internet scale and you have build the ability to design, develop an deploy features at that scale. Ability to move around team but you may end up in deeper s#!% than you were in.

Cons

Bureaucratic, I unfortunately had the worst managers in current teams, Previous managers were great. Absence of transparency into why certain people do better than others financially. In reality they seem to be doing nothing at all. ONCALL S$%$#. Since instant rewards and appreciation is absent, kills the competitiveness in you.

3.0
Oct 1, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Smart engineers. Tough problems at scale. Lots of opportunities to learn. Cross role interactions. High visibility into business.

Cons

Over worked engineers. Constant decision flip-flops higher up in the management chain. No appreciation for hard work. Micro management.

4.0
Sep 29, 2015

SDE

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Development team is great, nice, friendly, helpful. Access to all environments, very automated nearly stress free deployments.

Cons

Work life balance non existent, and most likely the more you work, the less well you do. Team is so good, it's difficult to even be in the top 50%, and if you aren't, it's not a very welcoming feeling (totally stupid, but that is the culture)

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