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

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 Informatique industry (3.9 stars).

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955 reviews
4.0
Jun 12, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

1. High stock price and when most of the bonus is in stocks it makes a significant difference 2. Innovation, challenging work environment. 3. If you are geek this might be best place to work 4. Code-code-code. If you like to code this is one of the best place on earth 5. Very high hiring bar, ensures you always ends up learning from your co-workers

Cons

1. Limited career growth, organization is very flat 2. Have not completely evolved in internal processes management 3. Frustrating internal tools to get work done 4. Not much appreciation

5.0
Jun 11, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Learn the workings of a large distributed system and huge world-class website; learn technologies and software development ideas from coworkers. Good money.

Cons

The on-call load and pager duty is onerous for Software Engineers maintaining servers. Promotions are rare. There are many non-technical managers leading technical teams. Frequent re-orgs are confusing and disruptive. Java-obsession in some parts.

4.0
Jun 11, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The engineers are generally motivated and talented. Incompetent people get fired (that sounds scary, but the opposite is true). There are interesting problems to solve. The pay is good to very good. Engineers, generally speaking, get more respect at Amazon than other companies for which I have worked.

Cons

Like everywhere I have worked, some groups are better than others. Also, the overall quality of managers seems poor compared to other companies. I think that is because they get burned out and quit.

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