Amazon Software Development Engineer II reviews

3.6

58% would recommend to a friend

(955 total reviews)
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Andrew Jassy

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 955 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 Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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955 reviews
4.0
Oct 22, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

You'll work with a lot of smart people that you can learn from. Lots of great tools at your disposal. And you'll likely work on something at a massive scale, which is an interesting challenge.

Cons

Your experience will vary greatly from team to team. On call can become very inconvenient, though on-call also varies greatly from team to team. Management tends to prefer new features to polishing existing products (though that's common to many companies), and tech debt can pile up quickly.

4.0
Oct 3, 2015

Its OK

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Exposure to complex distributed architectures and wonderful internal tools and deployment platforms. Exposure to internet scale and you have build the ability to design, develop an deploy features at that scale. Ability to move around team but you may end up in deeper s#!% than you were in.

Cons

Bureaucratic, I unfortunately had the worst managers in current teams, Previous managers were great. Absence of transparency into why certain people do better than others financially. In reality they seem to be doing nothing at all. ONCALL S$%$#. Since instant rewards and appreciation is absent, kills the competitiveness in you.

3.0
Oct 1, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Smart engineers. Tough problems at scale. Lots of opportunities to learn. Cross role interactions. High visibility into business.

Cons

Over worked engineers. Constant decision flip-flops higher up in the management chain. No appreciation for hard work. Micro management.

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