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
Dec 28, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Amazon is a great entry place for engineers. A mix of some ability and some drive will get an entrant into the full engineering exposure at a fast pace. Most of the direct software managers have engineering backgrounds mostly as experienced engineers at the company they don't just know about the technology but will have insight into relative teams too.

Cons

Management ability is completely random. Many do not have the training or ability to manage. The rise by force of will culture leads to a culture of it's everyone's responsibility who has a certain level of competence to do everything. Organization makes no sense in that way.

4.0
Oct 12, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You can get to work at some cutting edge stuff -- if you manage to find a good team. At its best, Amazon can be a great place to work.

Cons

Work/life balance can be off in certain orgs within Amazon. It really depends where you end up. In some orgs, many junior, and not so junior, engineers are spending years supporting critical legacy systems, and hardly doing any new development.

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