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
4.0
Nov 18, 2013

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Pros

There are large scale computer science problems to solve and lots of intelligent people to solve them with.

Cons

The ship it now and fix it later culture doesn't help the on call burden.

4.0
Nov 16, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

- Very good exposure to cloud based development and architechtures. - Good place to learn how to deal with high volume systems - A very challenging and intelligent peer group - Lots of learning oppertunities - A clear career plan

Cons

- A bit thrifty company. Its their culture.

2.0
Oct 24, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Working with some of the smartest people in the industry. You can make a significant impact much like a startup. Excellent benefits, parking reimbursement etc.

Cons

We seem to be doubling our workforce every year which means half the company is new to the company (no exaggeration). The culture of "bias for action" is lost in some groups. People are more worried about CYA than building the product right in a timely fashion. No work/life balance, overload of new hires needing to be mentored at the same time as needing to meet aggressive deadlines is very stressful and is currently causing some churn in the workforce.

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