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Amazon Web Services Software Development Engineer II reviews

3.6

56% would recommend to a friend

(103 total reviews)
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Matt Garman

32% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer II employees have rated Amazon Web Services with 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 103 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineer II professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon Web Services 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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103 reviews
3.0
Oct 28, 2024

Corporate

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good pay Smart people Tough problems to solve at a large scale

Cons

Deadlines seem to be much like my lower back. Tight and inflexible.

4.0
Sep 10, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

AWS has its own way of doing things, and there's a lot to be learned from understanding why the *mechanisms* are like they are.

Cons

Compliance work, lots of chores and bureaucracy to get basic things done. Doing hard things is easy, doing easy things is hard.

3.0
Sep 4, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You learn a ton and are given a lot of responsibility. They will transform you into an extremely solid engineer. You work with some of the brightest people in the industry.

Cons

You have to drink the leadership koolaid in order to be successful here. Toxic PIP culture makes it hard to trust anyone. Always have to be looking over your shoulder and questioning other's intentions. You become a great engineer at the cost of your mental health. On-call can be extremely rough, however that issue isn't specific to Amazon.

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