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
5.0
Oct 21, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Working with newer technologies, working on products that are relevant to customers, good work and life balance, great area to live and have a family.

Cons

Dev-ops means carrying a pager from time to time, getting paged at 2 am to fix an issue with your team's software or services.

4.0
Oct 18, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Amazon has a high variability in talent and the kind of stuff it works on. There are places which are working on old legacy and so-yesterday problems and either re-writing them or deprecating old stuff. Same time there are organizations within Amazon that work on really cutting edge technology. You get to choose where you want to work. The best organizations also attract the best talent and are the most challenging places to work. The other places are not so great in terms of talent, but it may be a good choice if one is interested in working on relatively safe things and/or interested in a career in management. You can get paid well either way you go

Cons

There is stiff competition and work pressure can sometimes get to you. Managing a career is not so easy and there is not enough transparency. You can find out though if you talk to folks who have been around a long time

4.0
Oct 11, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Each team is run like a startup. Team gets to decide what technologies can be used, how to design and build their systems.

Cons

Oncall can be taxing Workplace needs serious improvements. Office spaces are crowded, parking is extremely problematic and no real perks working in the office

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