Amazon Software Development Engineer II reviews

3.6

59% would recommend to a friend

(956 total reviews)
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Andrew Jassy

22% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer II employees have rated Amazon with 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 956 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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5.0
Aug 9, 2022
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Pros

I'm fully remote as a preface. Started during covid, so they let me work from where ever. Team is a data product in AWS. I have good and understanding managers. Cool projects that challenge me at the right level. Good hours, I set them myself basically. Project timeline make sense for number of resources. Leaders are willing to delay deadlines due to unforeseen situations. Long term goals make sense. Performance reviews make sense, you get feedback anonymously from peers and manager. The tool available are sufficient for work. Clear growth areas and paths as an engineer. Everyone is very helpful and responsive. I find it silly to disregard an entire massive company because of a few bad teams here and there. I suggest you to get to know the team/product you are interviewing with and then make a judgement. I hear talks of PIP all the time, but that happens to like bottom 10%. If you are the other 90% AKA most people, it's irrelevant for you.

Cons

Oncall is rough at times. I'm on like 3 oncall rotations. An extra one for me since I'm US citizen, and US citizens have exclusive access to certain cloud regions. Lack of enough senior engineers / seasoned veterans on my team. They're already pretty rare, but we can do with more to learn from. None of the typical software perks. No free food, drinks, etc. You get free banana if you're in Seattle. Can have WFH things reimbursed, but with a budget cap backloaded RSU schedule.

4.0
Aug 3, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Amazon was an awesome place to learn. The whole company is very data and document centric. It's very easy to find designs and documentation for almost any project you want to know about. Principal engineers also give a lot of tech talks that are recorded and available to anyone in the company. I learned so much at Amazon.

Cons

Work here is very fast paced. To survive you need to get pretty good at scheduling. Managers listen to data though so if you can show evidence that you don't have enough time for a project they will work with you to adjust scope. It can get very stressful if you are not good at this or don't have a great manager though.

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