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      Amazon Web Services Software Development Engineer II reviews

      3.5

      56% would recommend to a friend

      (100 total reviews)
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      Matt Garman

      21% approve of CEO

      65% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.4

      Compensation and benefits

      4.0

      Career opportunities

      3.7

      Diversity & inclusion

      2.4

      Culture & values

      2.3

      Work/Life balance

      2.2

      Senior management

      Software Development Engineer II employees have rated Amazon Web Services with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 100 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineer II professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon Web Services 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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      100 reviews
      2.0
      Apr 4, 2025

      Great Pay, Not Great Balance

      Software development engineer ii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      AWS pays great, there's no hiding that. You will work for it.

      Cons

      Toxic culture. Cut throat performance reviews. Mandatory stack ranking with managing out poor-performers. Lots of politics. Many long days and weekends. No boundaries with work-life balance. Oncall shifts can consistently have you sleep less than 4 hours a night.

      1.0
      Mar 29, 2025

      Where there's smoke there's fire

      Software development engineer ii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Excellent experience working at an intense pace and with the latest technologies at scale

      Cons

      Horrific culture of non technical micro-management. They apply pressure and have no understanding of the value of their engineers or any engineering concepts. Also they have removed all of their DEI related policies, leading to a even more predatory culture

      4.0
      Mar 27, 2025

      Great place to work for

      Software development engineer ii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Interesting Problems - Interesting People - Different interesting avenues to explore

      Cons

      - Top down decision can feel like engineers are after-thought and not involved in decision making or don't have a voice - Politics can play a role, although not so much that it's unbearable - Things change fast - Long hours, but you are excited to do them? Although, manager try to discourage this. But things move so fast, that it can feel like falling behind and you have to compensate

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