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
2.0
Oct 1, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

* Pay is one of the most competitive in the market * Decent upwards mobility

Cons

* Benefits are sup-par, time and resources for training are laughable. Company will nickel and dime its own employees * Company will make life-altering decisions on a whim without any concern or exception for special circumstances, eroding trust and making many in the company prepared to leave at any moment out of fear they will be next to be screwed over. * Every little project you work on will eventually require working in another team's code base, but every team is so overworked they will do everything in their power to block you, creating a environment of excessive red tape and toxicity. * Consequence of the above is there are several duplicate tech stacks in the company and documentation is non-existent for even the most core of systems, making any and all work a demoralizing slog of wasted hours. * Average tenue is about 2.5 years, so there is a noticeable lack of institutional knowledge that hurts the company.

4.0
Sep 27, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

* Unparalleled Career Growth * High Compensation * Less Bureaucracy * Easy to Switch Teams * Industry Leader in Cloud * Good Peers * Good Build Systems/ Dev Tooling

Cons

* Your experience is very team/manager dependent especially On-Call Rotations * High Manager churn; 3 in the last calendar year alone (some have no direct manager) * Constant re-orgs; 5 in the last 2 years in my department * Unpopular mandates from C-Suite leadership damage morale (RTO) followed by layoffs * Just do it culture can lead to interruption via DM/emails/random meetings during high priority work

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