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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956 reviews
4.0
Jul 10, 2017
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Pros

Fast paced, high energy company to work with engineering problems of massive scale

Cons

It's a grind, most people come here to learn and burn out after so many years, hardly any projects that don't have tight, almost unreachable goals.

4.0
Jun 21, 2017

AWS

Recommend
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Pros

Culture in AWS is nothing like the NY time article

Cons

Could use a real coffee machine

4.0
Jun 6, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Note, experiences at Amazon vary lot depending on the team you're in. I've worked for the Relational Database Service team for 2+ years. - gain experience building a service that manages hundreds of thousands of database instances (lots of challenges at "Amazon scale") - gain experience working with other AWServices. - opportunities to get your hands dirty on low level database engine code. - medium operational burden -No hard deadlines. The focus is always on building a quality product.

Cons

- The usual; stingy on perks. E.g. far from free food, sometimes there are no decent food options. - Social/team activities are rare. But again, some teams/locations are better at this than others.

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