Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE2) reviews

3.3

48% would recommend to a friend

(508 total reviews)
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Andrew Jassy

23% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer (SDE2) employees have rated Amazon with 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 508 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 Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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508 reviews
5.0
Mar 11, 2019

Great Company

Recommend
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Pros

Big data problems. Changes affect thousands to millions of customers. Empowers engineers to make decisions based on data and doesn't berate for the wrong decision; Allows them to correct and learn. You'll never feel stupid or unprepared. You are allowed to admit you don't know things and people will jump in to help you. They aren't a large company that "everyone is just a number". You are always treated respectfully and it's a work hard, play hard type of environment.

Cons

Takes a while to onboard and learn their systems because it's a large tech landscape. It's all highly engineered and well thought out, but you'll feel stupid at first. They have lots of acronyms for everything that take a couple of months to get used to. But this isn't really a "con" because you'll be learning from the best. Check your ego at home when you start with Amazon because you're going to meet a lot of really smart people that are more than happy to help you step it up to the level of a trillion dollar company.

4.0
Mar 9, 2019

Life at Amazon

Recommend
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Pros

Quality of work, peers. Exposure to tech.

Cons

Missing work life balance, recognition.

4.0
Feb 13, 2019

Good company

Recommend
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Pros

big company lots of interstring projs

Cons

too big too much plitics

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