Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE) II reviews

3.5

57% would recommend to a friend

(4,773 total reviews)
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Andrew Jassy

43% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer (SDE II) employees have rated Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 4,773 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineer (SDE II) professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineer (SDE II) professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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5K reviews
3.0
May 23, 2026
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Pros

Good pay and healthcare 50/50 odds of decent work*, (highly dependent on which team) Great teammates (for the most part)

Cons

Terrible upper leadership with no technical background Forced AI usage even when it's proven to be useless in some projects Overworked, awful expectations - force fast delivery, but at the same time want NO bugs. For some reason, upper leadership can't understand that quality code and slightly less rushed deadlines would fix this. Layoffs are diabolical, managers won't even know who got nuked until the morning of, when the employees are missing; regardless of performance, by the way, but low performers are targeted first.

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