Amazon Software Development Engineer II reviews

3.5

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 3.5 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 Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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955 reviews
5.0
Feb 2, 2023
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Pros

Documentation on Amazon is a super important point in all projects and meetings. With that, you have a lot of material to learn from past mistakes and understand how things really work around here.

Cons

You need to understand your job and what you need to improve to be better at it. It depends on the manager, but it's not common to a manager to detail everything that someone needs to improve it. In this way, you need to be a really self critic person and not everyone is like that.

4.0
Jan 30, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The leadership principles are woven into everything we do at amazon and I feel like it really does help to make the right decisions for the customer. I appreciate having a value system and it really informs the work that gets done. I love the size and focus of the teams as well. There is high ownership and empowerment to affect real change for your customer.

Cons

The recent layoffs really sucked. Good people were laid off who didn't deserve it. I hope the business will take better care with decisions about when to grow and when to be conservative to avoid having to take these sort of workforce reduction measures. The high performing highly driven nature of this company can sometimes make it difficult to strike the right work/life balance which is critical to do because the company will take whatever time you are willing to give to it. As with any company, you have to set your own boundaries to strike that balance.

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