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
Jun 27, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

High ownership, and ability to make significant differnce. Each individual has lot of power and freedom to make the s/w better. Employees are generally not restricted by process.

Cons

Exteremly Dynamic, The so called orgnized Kaos can cause occasional imbalnce in work/life. This is however is improving.

3.0
Jun 24, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

the initial salary, signing bonus, and the stock is not bad. the people are generally pretty smart, projects are of interesting complexity.

Cons

no substantial salary increases after you are hired.

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