Amazon Software Engineer (Software Developer II) reviews

3.4

60% would recommend to a friend

(337 total reviews)
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Andrew Jassy

20% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

Software Engineer (Software Developer II) employees have rated Amazon with 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 337 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer (Software Developer II) professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineer (Software Developer II) professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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337 reviews
1.0
Aug 7, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Used to be good. A lot of freedom, very little upper management interaction.

Cons

Is now very top down. S team says jump, you ask how high. They provide no justification, and look at arbitrary metrics to determine performance.

2.0
Aug 4, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Really capable, dedicated and smart people work at Amazon. A lot to learn and just the scale of the products is an interesting challenge by itself. Great INITIAL pay. Good benefits. Great place to earn experience on what to do and what not to do.

Cons

Good managers don't last much. Leadership is dishonest. You will hear high-level managers and executives continuously saying they are working on addressing employees feedback while ignoring it or even directly going in the opposite direction. Leadership leads by force and not by example. Retention policies are just sad. It's common internal knowledge that the best way to get a promotion and pay bump is to quit and come back after 6 months since even if you get a promotion, the compensation increase is not significant and not worth the effort. Stack ranking practices in disguise. They are currently forcing people to quit without severance or relocate cross-state and cross-country. Even for people with exceptions signed by VPs. Clearly leveraging the current job market conditions to get away with that. Overall, good place to improve your resume and your career but don't expect to stay there for more than 1 or 2 years and please don't trust leadership. And given the current attrition, I would be surprised if it continues to be a good place to learn things in 5/10 years.

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