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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1.0
May 2, 2014
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Pros

working at amazon is better than starving in the rain fighting hobos and pigeon for cold bowls of bird soup. working at Amazon is better than watching infomercials.

Cons

Amazon thinks way to highly of themselves. They sell doo-dads over the internet. Amazon does not value people. Google the gawker article on "amazons bizarre corporate culture. If you are a talented young engineer, DO NOT WORK FOR AMAZON. GO ANYWHERE else.

4.0
Apr 9, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Amazon has invested a lot in the development infrastructure. There are a lot of tools in place to make writing and deploying code easier; the learning curve can be steep but they really do focus on getting developers to a place where they are adding value. The team you work on will really impact how much you work and how intense your on-call is but my team has very reasonable expectations. I never work more than 40 hours a week and our on-call is very mild. This is not true for all teams.

Cons

The focus on "Bias for Action" sometimes equates to the ends justify the means and you get people who basically think they can bully you into doing what they want. Your experience at Amazon will really vary based on your team but can be hard to predict in advance.

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