Amazon Software Development Engineer II reviews

3.6

59% would recommend to a friend

(956 total reviews)
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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 956 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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956 reviews
4.0
Apr 29, 2021

Good Job

Recommend
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Pros

- Very smart people. - Plenty of opportunities to learn and grow. - Lots of opportunities within company if you decide to change your focus

Cons

- Management follows the leadership principles to a fault. - Very org dependent experience in terms of work life balance, annual compensation change, and opportunities for career advancement. - Oncall

4.0
Apr 27, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1. Almost all managers have been very supportive in terms of project decisions and deadlines, and growth. 2. Peers are usually helpful and nice in general. 3. RSUs can jump your CTC by a lot. 4. Good internal set of tools so you have less friction with peripheral development of products 5. Switching teams to align your career is very easy.

Cons

1. Very few perks from the company. 2. With the internal tools available, you are virtually locked in to use certain technologies all the time to build products even from ground up. 3. Lot of dev ops work is to be handled by software developers.

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