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
3.0
Sep 25, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Great brand - Average plus salary - Amazon has built benchmark in ECommerce and other spaces as well. To reach that it has developed tonnes of great software, algorithms, etc. It is like a niche encyclopedia. If you want to learn then there is loads to read. - If you are really passionate then you can build great products. - Aggressive - Highly customer focused

Cons

These are specific to Bangalore, India - Poor higher management - Least number of facilities for employees - Even a simple task is made into a firedrill - Poor work-personal life balance - Repetative nature of tasks

4.0
Sep 21, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Huge good quality community. Good dev infrastructure , can spend more time in ideas and business specific coding

Cons

Development in teams closely related to business might not be a good experience. Decisions would be biased for the business and people are very frugal and obsessed with business.

3.0
Sep 15, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Incredibly talented and driven people - Non-existent politics - You learn a LOT every day

Cons

- "NO" work/life balance. It is a great company to be in when you are in your 20s and can spend a lot of extra hours - Every mistake gets highlighted in the review - No credit given for going out of your way to do something (because that is expected) - Very poor (read non existent) perks - Very high churn (within one year I was the third most senior member of my team). This means that you have to constantly pitch in to mentor/train new hires (mostly new graduates)

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