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
3.0
Jan 4, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The internal development tools are fantastic. It is a technology driven company where developers can help guide the roadmap.

Cons

Every 6 months they look for people to fire and if you don't play the game right, they'll pick you. There is very high turnover, so half a team can clear out in a year. The pace is frenetic on some teams, priorities change frequently, and you can end up with hacks on top of hacks. Some teams have extraordinary operation burdens and technical debt, and end up dedicating all of their time to dealing with that instead of new and interesting work.

3.0
Nov 27, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The core values of Ownership, Integrity, Bias for Action, Frugality etc., are all things that I personally approve of and have known to work best for me. The culture of the company fits me very well. In my 7 years, I have not worked on anything that was not of any use to anyone. Essentially, no work/time of mine was spent for nothing. Managers and senior managers are invariably always demanding, challenging and make you do more than what you would have done if left alone. To slightly lazy people like me, that is really helpful. People above my level are invariably role-models. They have amazing process, excellent communication and influencing skills. Very structured thought-process and always focused on the customers.

Cons

For the work one does here, the money one gets is very low.

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