Amazon Software Development Engineer II reviews

3.6

58% would recommend to a friend

(954 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 954 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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3.0
Nov 27, 2013
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Pros

The core values of Ownership, Integrity, Bias for Action, Frugality etc., are all things that I personally approve of and have known to work best for me. The culture of the company fits me very well. In my 7 years, I have not worked on anything that was not of any use to anyone. Essentially, no work/time of mine was spent for nothing. Managers and senior managers are invariably always demanding, challenging and make you do more than what you would have done if left alone. To slightly lazy people like me, that is really helpful. People above my level are invariably role-models. They have amazing process, excellent communication and influencing skills. Very structured thought-process and always focused on the customers.

Cons

For the work one does here, the money one gets is very low.

4.0
Nov 18, 2013

@Amazon

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Pros

There are large scale computer science problems to solve and lots of intelligent people to solve them with.

Cons

The ship it now and fix it later culture doesn't help the on call burden.

4.0
Nov 16, 2013
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Pros

- Very good exposure to cloud based development and architechtures. - Good place to learn how to deal with high volume systems - A very challenging and intelligent peer group - Lots of learning oppertunities - A clear career plan

Cons

- A bit thrifty company. Its their culture.

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