Amazon Software Engineer II reviews

3.4

61% would recommend to a friend

(307 total reviews)
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15% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

Software Engineer II employees have rated Amazon with 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 307 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer II professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineer II professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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307 reviews
4.0
Jan 20, 2022

it is ok...

Recommend
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Pros

teammates are nice. Work is not too hard.

Cons

No QA, developers test by themselves. Need to do on-call every 1.5 months

3.0
Jan 19, 2022

Good Pay, Boring Work

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The pay is pretty good, I enjoy working with many of my coworkers

Cons

Benefits aren't great, everything (in the devices org) is a big unorganized mess

2.0
Jan 13, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

My coworkers were smart and motivated; it was great to be around people who were genuinely interested in fixing problems and making high quality code. Lots of mobility within the company.

Cons

The entire corporate structure places an enormous focus on raw metrics and tends to throw everything else out the window. This results in terrible / oversimplified decisions from above that result in unrealistic timelines, long hours, mountains of technical debt, hellish on-call schedules, and a surprising amount of upper-management petty drama. The company never lets you forget that you have no value outside of your shipped code.

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