Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE2) reviews

3.3

50% would recommend to a friend

(506 total reviews)
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25% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer SDE2 employees have rated Amazon with 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 506 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineer SDE2 professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineer SDE2 professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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506 reviews
4.0
Sep 11, 2016

Opportunities to grow

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Pros

Tremendous opportunities to grow as a software engineer due to the global engineering top class talent pool available at ease. You can be rest assured to get to learn and best professional development opportunities.

Cons

There are many other responsibilities which are imposed on SDE's shoulders. Due to this lot of SDEs time goes wasted in other tasks which are note helpful in growing them to become a better engineer.

4.0
Jul 29, 2016

Place for people like challenge

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Pros

Access new tech, good infrastructure, smart colleague, face good challenge, can try to use any language or new tech in your project, and management care about your career path and improvement.

Cons

Require high ownership, people who could not meet average performance shall meet work life balance issue, as the company always try to hire people better than %50 current employee, the pressure could be very large here

4.0
May 23, 2016

Good place to Work

Recommend
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Pros

Get to work on New Technology, as a developer you can take ownership from scratch and make the product up and running. developers are key resources of Amazon. Shares are given if you are key performer.

Cons

Very fast paced env. Hectic work schedule.

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