Amazon Software Developer II reviews

3.4

60% would recommend to a friend

(337 total reviews)
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21% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

Software Developer II employees have rated Amazon with 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 337 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer II professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer II professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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337 reviews
4.0
Feb 7, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Strong customer focus. Good career advancement Choice of many different projects Very smart peoples Great stock price increase

Cons

Sometimes a bit bureaucratic A bit too frugal about their employees.

2.0
Dec 25, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Lot of learning opportunities. Very intelligent co-workers. The scale of problems are so big, only few companies have problems at such large scale.

Cons

Not a startup and they keep saying frugality drives innovation but we do not need to be frugal any more so generally we get away by adding a few hundred machines every time a scale issue comes up. Management forces SDE-II/SDE-III to be influential but that creates a bad work environment. Senior engineers have to force their decisions on junior engineers to meet their goals. Works well until you are SDE-I but as you become more experienced you would probably like to understand why trade-offs you are making in your design/development are worst then suggested by some other senior engineer.

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