Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE2) reviews

3.3

48% would recommend to a friend

(510 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 510 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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510 reviews
1.0
Sep 6, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Great pay and remote work (at the time). Easy to change teams if your manager allows it.

Cons

If you land on a bad manager, you're doomed. Mine bypassed all HR processes and put me on the underperformance plan without telling me or giving me the actual plan. When I discovered it, I told HR and they confirmed that it was wrong. Everyone I worked with said I was doing a good job, except for my manager. To fix this, HR put me on the next stage of the plan. I quit then. When I quit, all the managers faked that they were surprised, telling me that if they had known, they'd have fixed this (although we had been discussing it for the past 3 months)

1.0
Sep 5, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

They had good internal technology, and minimal restrictions on languages and implementation. However is mostly Java.

Cons

It’s really a gamble there, some managers were ok, but others were the absolute worst. I got a bad one and he burned me out to the point I want to quit engineering completely.

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