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 Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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955 reviews
5.0
Aug 22, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great place to develop your career. Excellent, supportive coworkers and extremely interesting work. Business rules that are followed internally, rather than just being something leadership teams come up with and everyone else pays lip service to. Huge stock bonuses which doubled in between the time I signed and my first day. Promising future and many amazing products in the pipeline.

Cons

Stock price fluctuations keep life interesting. Some (external) people have a negative outlook on the working conditions.

5.0
Aug 18, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Company actually makes product decisions based on what's best for customers. Decision making is based around rational arguments (usually written docs). People actually follow the leadership principles instead of making decisions based on personal biases.

Cons

Have to move to Seattle to be in main office. Be in SLU is nice, but if you want to drive you'll have to join a waitlist for a company parking spot.

1.0
Aug 18, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great impact- ur work reaches couple hundred million people Good for fresh grads who can give it all and sacrifice their personal life

Cons

No real mentorship- New joinees have to find their way out, extremely lofty goals, expected to think of ways to solve on commute/shower. This was something my manager often communicated hinting at taking up stuff beyond tightly planned scrum deadlines. No room for unexpected delays due to inter team integration issues- get chastised in appraisal for the same. Felt like a unsatiable task master, I used to work from 10:30am to 10pm every day and i clearly fell short since i didn't work on the weekends or was not smart enough.

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