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      Amazon Software Development Engineer II reviews

      3.6

      58% would recommend to a friend

      (955 total reviews)
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      19% approve of CEO

      53% positive business outlook

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      Software Development Engineer II employees have rated Amazon with 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 955 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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      955 reviews
      4.0
      Aug 16, 2024

      Good

      Software development engineer ii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good pay package Lots of teams and business verticals to choose from

      Cons

      Bad Work-life balance Stack ranking

      4.0
      Aug 12, 2024

      Pays well, semi-stressful, my HR experience was horrible

      Software development engineer ii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The compensation is very good compared to other places in my area. The leadership at my particular office is great and reasonable. You work with a lot of very smart and talented people. My manager was one of the best managers I've worked with.

      Cons

      The work is more complex than any previous place I've worked, which for me translates to more stress. Working with Amazon's suite of sometimes documented internal tools and libraries can be frustrating and working with them means less career-valuable experience with open source tech. There is not a lot of autonomy or iteration for my team -- our projects are handed down from above and planned up front. Working with certain types of HR questions can be a real headache, as phone calls go through a call center where it's easy to get shuffled around to different teams without your problem being solved.

      2.0
      Aug 5, 2024

      Messy

      Software development engineer ii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Can learn with modern aws/dev tools. You can have talented engineering peers. Or not. Depends on the team

      Cons

      Heavily political. Spend more time managing politics to convince nontechnical people of things than engineering the right solutions

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