Is Amazon a good company to work for as a Software Development Engineer II?

Software Development Engineer II professionals working at Amazon have rated their employer with 3.6 out of 5 stars in 957 Glassdoor reviews. This is a higher than average score with the overall rating of Amazon employees being 3.5 out of 5 stars. Search open Software Development Engineer II Jobs at Amazon now and start preparing for your job interview by browsing frequently asked Software Development Engineer II interview questions at Amazon .

Does Amazon pay Software Development Engineer II employees well?

Software Development Engineer II professionals rate their compensation and benefits at Amazon with 3.9 out of 5 stars based on 957 anonymously submitted employee reviews. This is 5.3% better than the company average rating for salary and benefits. Find out more about Software Development Engineer II salaries at Amazon.

What Amazon locations are top rated by Software Development Engineer II employees?

Amazon locations which are top rated by Software Development Engineer II employees are Sunnyvale , Seattle and New York . On the other hand, Amazon locations which have been rated the lowest by Software Development Engineer II professionals are Boston and San Francisco .

What are the top reviewed jobs at Amazon?

Warehouse Associate (11120) , Warehouse Worker (6916) , Associate (6212) , Software Engineer (6177) , Area Manager (5708) , Software Development Engineer (SDE) (3521) , Fulfillment Associate (3411) , Software Development Engineer (3184) , Customer Service Representative (3047) , Program Manager (2482) , Operations Manager (2299) , Customer Service Associate (2219) , Sortation Associate (1868) , Manager (1456) , Process Assistant (1422)

What are the pros of working at Amazon according to real employee reviews?

"Pay is good but not worth the asks made from IT and how they are treated" ((in 19439 reviews)); "good benefits you have to get good benefits because everything else at amazon is terrible!!" ((in 13258 reviews)); "A lot of information that is useful and great people to go to when you need something" ((in 7712 reviews)); "It's a very huge company all around the world and it keep satisfying their employees with good salary and accommodation" ((in 5748 reviews)); "The work culture is good and I never felt that I was new in the company" ((in 4908 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Amazon according to real employee reviews?

"You do work bloody hard and very long hours so there is no work life balance" ((in 10117 reviews)); "You work long hours and not as many breaks as you would like or need at times" ((in 7053 reviews)); "Their management is poor and has many problems that you may have never seen before." ((in 6667 reviews)); "There are also bad managers that are rude and do not care about the feelings of their associates." ((in 5201 reviews)); "The company advertises peak season as the long hours and hard push but it really happens routinely throughout the year." ((in 2410 reviews))

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Amazon Software Development Engineer II reviews

3.6

59% would recommend to a friend

(957 total reviews)

Andrew Jassy

22% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.0

Career opportunities

3.9

Compensation and benefits

3.5

Diversity & inclusion

3.0

Culture & values

2.9

Work/Life balance

2.6

Senior management

Software Development Engineer, II employees have rated Amazon with 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 957 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 Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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4.0

Jun 12, 2016

Work in AWS is challenging, but rewarding in terms of both: compensation and professional growth.

Software development engineer ii

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Industry-leading technologies, great project and one of the most talented people I had to work with throughout my career. Given the company size, most of decisions are made fast and start from engineers and go bottom-up.

Cons

Work-life balance is not great, while I've never been forced to work over-time, it was alert my choice. Atmosphere here pushes everyone to always deliver more, always raise the bar.

4.0

Jun 5, 2016

Great place to work

Software development engineer ii

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Work with amazing tools. Have lots of flexibility. Can work on all sorts of problems because the company is so big. Surprisingly good work hours.

Cons

No free food like Google has. Need to be on the oncall rota. Some managers and engineers are sub standard.

4.0

Jun 3, 2016

Software engineer ii

Software development engineer ii

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Got started in Amazon.cn due to H1B visa lottery. Lots to learn. Such as How Amazon runs, how amazon keeps the best people. Nice colleagues.

Cons

CN teams got little right to speak out. Lots of good projects are outsourcing to amazon.in Salary is pretty fair. Not competitive compared to local large companies like BAT

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