Amazon Software Development Engineer II reviews

3.6

58% would recommend to a friend

(954 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 954 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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954 reviews
4.0
Oct 12, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You can get to work at some cutting edge stuff -- if you manage to find a good team. At its best, Amazon can be a great place to work.

Cons

Work/life balance can be off in certain orgs within Amazon. It really depends where you end up. In some orgs, many junior, and not so junior, engineers are spending years supporting critical legacy systems, and hardly doing any new development.

5.0
Oct 9, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Challenging problems from real world combined with Amazon scale makes most scalable solutions obsolete in few years. Pace of development is fast. Each employee is a leader and an owner. Its great to be among people who are constantly improving things because they want to and not because they are asked to.

Cons

Oncall support can be bad. Work life balance, growth, etc - A lot depends on your manager. I am lucky to have a good manager but not everyone is.

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