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AWS SDE II - Software Engineer II Amazon Web Services Employee Review

4.0
Mar 13, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- Good amount of interesting projects depending on the team. You get exposure to large-scale systems and real production traffic. - Smart coworkers overall. Most engineers are helpful and collaborative. - If you are proactive, there are good learning opportunities and chances to work with different AWS services. - Good place to build strong engineering fundamentals early in your career.

Cons

- Reorgs happen pretty frequently, which can cause projects to get reshuffled or priorities to change suddenly. - Work-life balance varies a lot by team. Some teams are chill, others can get pretty busy. - Career growth sometimes requires a lot of self-advocacy.

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Cons

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Pros

Ambitious projects if you're in the right team. Typically great team-mates. Don't believe the memes, the ppl are not back stabbing jerks but are overall genuinely nice. Not constrained by budgets when building cool things. Tools while sometimes clunky are powerful.

Cons

Schizophrenic lack of focus, entire teams get split, merged and upended multiple times a quarter. Some product managers are disconnected from reality. It didn't use to be the case, the PM-Ts were previously top notch. You're pushed to vibe code everything. Established products with loyal customers are getting neglected. Newer VP level leaders don't seem to know what they are doing. Veteran OG VP level leaders are either leaving in droves or seem stressed or checked out.

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