Amazon Software Development Engineer II reviews

3.6

58% would recommend to a friend

(955 total reviews)
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19% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer II employees have rated Amazon with 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 955 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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955 reviews
5.0
Jul 4, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Product breadth, opportunity to develop and learn is huge. You can work in whatever you are interested in. There is a great website. Then there are high performance/scale services which are core part of business. Then there is AWS, hardware, kindle and the list goes on. It's generally easy to switch teams and moving to other roles is encouraged. Mostly smart people around. Compensation is competitive and great potential of stock is a silver-lining on the top of that. Just loving the company and work.

Cons

Sometimes work could be hectic but that's ok. Some managers are political & bad but many are good. Again few teams do not do great work but just operations or maintenance so be choosy. Don't expect great facilities as it's very frugal company but essential benefits are comparable to other good companies.

4.0
Jun 17, 2014

SDE II

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good people - some of the best I've ever worked with Fun work environment Great tech Great technical problems. Great infrastructure

Cons

Bad benefits - almost zero perks for employees. Lots of people burn out - you must learn to say no! Needless, short-sighted frugality

4.0
Jun 13, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Ownership - Customer focus - Self driven. You can seek to understand bigger picture if you want or focus in your specialities. - Easy to change teams. - Fast paced still ready to acquire latest technologies - No limit to the responsibility you can take.

Cons

- Grown potential limited. - No encouragement from manager about the career growth unless you seek out. - Overwhelming first year - Goals/deadline mostly unrealistic

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