Amazon Software Development Engineer II reviews

3.6

59% would recommend to a friend

(957 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 957 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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957 reviews
1.0
Jan 21, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Some of the engineers are really talented

Cons

Company culture wants everyone to do everything and is very stressful. Forte is the stupidest thing ever. Peer feedback is a waste of time and never results in anything. They claim to want to use your strengths, but al they did for me was tell me to not use them and focus on weaknesses The idea of growth at Amazon is taking a employee who likes their job and push them to focus more on the things they hate to try to justify a promotion instead of using their strengths. I now hate my job and am not productive For a data driven company, management of people is the opposite of that. They constantly collect data from employees, but never share any results. Nothing they do is justified

4.0
Jan 16, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Opportunities to work on complex technical problems Ability to have a large impact due to company scale Many growth opportunities working in ambiguous problem spaces

Cons

Can be difficult to feel connected to work or that work is a social good Significant learning curve for navigating internal bureaucracy

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