Amazon Software Development Engineer II reviews

3.6

59% would recommend to a friend

(956 total reviews)
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22% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer II employees have rated Amazon with 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 956 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 Tecnologia da informação industry (3.9 stars).

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956 reviews
1.0
Jun 11, 2015
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Really smart colleagues, decent pay and benefits. The largest scale you'll ever work on.

Cons

a corporate that does not value people and middle management that do not lead. I'm amazed it how chaotic and wasteful it is. And how the culture leads to a kind of callous disregard for anything other than self preservation.

4.0
Jun 7, 2015

Review

Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

* Get to work on exciting things from day 1. You set boundaries for yourself. * management is pretty good in terms of listening to engineers (at least for the technical part) * you can grow to be a leader * other smart engineers

Cons

* Frugality gets stretched too far sometimes * on call

4.0
Jun 4, 2015
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

You get to learn a whole lot of neat technology at Amazon. It is a very vibrant place and generally the people you work with are friendly. They do compensate you well but there is a reason for that as the explained in the 'Cons' section...

Cons

On-call duties are the worst--very high pressure in which you have to try to solve emergency situation often on code you have NEVER seen before (someone else's code in which that 'someone else' has probably left the company long time ago). Also, getting help from others can be tough at times since everybody is quite busy so you have to find the solution on your own via the company Wiki, etc. Also important is culture: Amazon has lots of 'young' folks and you can sense the condescension from them to older folks. In fact, quite a few of them seem very cynical when interacting with the older generation.

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