Amazon Software Development Engineer II reviews

3.5

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 3.5 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
Feb 5, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Amazon pays you more in the first two years to balance out stock vesting taking longer and being less, so you'll immediately have a decently sized paycheck

Cons

You'll probably use a lot of that paycheck dealing with how psychologically draining it is to work at a place as soulless and harmful as Amazon. Layoff frequency is increasing, teams are being required to own more and more, the AI push is causing increasingly many issues and outages, and Amazon's entire structure is designed to keep you off balance and overworked.

2.0
Jan 30, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Get to work with some great people day to day (mostly team members and manger; higher than that is questionable).

Cons

Leadership is so focused on the stock price that employees are nothing but an operating expense to them. Performance and tenure mean nothing - you could still be laid off at the tip of a hat.

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