Amazon Software Development Engineer II reviews

3.6

59% would recommend to a friend

(957 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 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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957 reviews
1.0
Mar 9, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I work with remarkably intelligent, passionate people who are unfortunate being squandered by upper management.

Cons

After tens of thousands of my coworkers were laid off and several RTO mandates, the senior leadership at Amazon has revealed itself to be a bunch of spineless cowards. Where Amazon once prided itself for its "peculiar" ways, it now follows trends. Jeff Bezos spoke of how hard it is to build trust and how easy it is to lose it, and the S-team have been an archetypical example of that. Amazon has no leadership anymore. It's headed by a bunch of stuffed suits.

2.0
Mar 1, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Interesting, challenging work - You'll learn a lot and quickly - Some of the people you'll work with (absolute minority!) are geniuses and a pleasure to learn from

Cons

- Hiring bar is far too low - Short-term thinking - Company doesn't care about your wellbeing (comp/conditions) - Extremely toxic: people will take credit for other people's work/will not do any work that will not directly make them sound like heroes

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