Amazon SDE-2 Backend Developer reviews

3.8

78% would recommend to a friend

(30 total reviews)
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Andrew Jassy

44% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

SDE 2 Backend Developer employees have rated Amazon with 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 30 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most SDE 2 Backend Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by SDE 2 Backend Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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30 reviews
1.0
Jan 13, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

* Ownership * Access to infra

Cons

* Toxic Managers which wont let to change team by providing false negative feedback to other managers and this feedback is not shared with SDE * Promotions to SDE3 is not possible as there are 2 digits SDE2 in one team and they don't offer projects with good scope to create large impact like SDE3 * No hike from last 2 years * Internal build tools are pathetic and take a lot of time to build, even a small change take 5 to 10 mins to build. Apps don't run on Mac, need to run them on remote machines and cannot debug in IDE. Development of simple API takes days. This impacts work life balance a lot * Internal common applications have bad documentation and almost no support

4.0
Jan 7, 2025

Good growth since the start

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good exposure to problems, talented people.

Cons

Terrible CEO decisions, RTO 5 days a week is a major deal breaker for many employees

4.0
Dec 9, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

good technical knowledge to be gained

Cons

the perf review system is brutal

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