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      Amazon Software Development Engineer II reviews

      3.6

      58% would recommend to a friend

      (956 total reviews)
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      Andrew Jassy

      19% approve of CEO

      53% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.0

      Compensation and benefits

      4.0

      Career opportunities

      3.5

      Diversity & inclusion

      2.9

      Culture & values

      2.9

      Work/Life balance

      2.6

      Senior management

      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 Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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      956 reviews
      1.0
      Oct 25, 2015

      Ruthless managers and unfriendly coworkers

      Software development engineer ii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Amazon is a customer centric company. Whatever you do in Amazon, you should think of your customer.

      Cons

      Nobody will help you with anything. Everybody tries to find a way to promotion and one person from a team can be promoted during a review period. So, this basically makes everybody hate each other. You may not even find a colleague to go to lunch with. Even worst, if you are good engineer, everybody will be looking to see you fail or creating an image of failure for you. Thus, everybody tries to use politics as much as they can.

      4.0
      Oct 22, 2015

      Great place to learn

      Software development engineer ii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      You'll work with a lot of smart people that you can learn from. Lots of great tools at your disposal. And you'll likely work on something at a massive scale, which is an interesting challenge.

      Cons

      Your experience will vary greatly from team to team. On call can become very inconvenient, though on-call also varies greatly from team to team. Management tends to prefer new features to polishing existing products (though that's common to many companies), and tech debt can pile up quickly.

      4.0
      Oct 3, 2015

      Its OK

      Software development engineer - ii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Exposure to complex distributed architectures and wonderful internal tools and deployment platforms. Exposure to internet scale and you have build the ability to design, develop an deploy features at that scale. Ability to move around team but you may end up in deeper s#!% than you were in.

      Cons

      Bureaucratic, I unfortunately had the worst managers in current teams, Previous managers were great. Absence of transparency into why certain people do better than others financially. In reality they seem to be doing nothing at all. ONCALL S$%$#. Since instant rewards and appreciation is absent, kills the competitiveness in you.

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