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      Amazon Software Development Engineer II (SDEII) reviews

      3.4

      39% would recommend to a friend

      (147 total reviews)
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      Andrew Jassy

      39% approve of CEO

      53% positive business outlook

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      Software Development Engineer II SDEII employees have rated Amazon with 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 147 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineer II SDEII professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineer II SDEII professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologia da informação industry (3.9 stars).

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      147 reviews
      5.0
      Oct 29, 2019

      Good

      Sdeii
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great culture, great management, great teammates

      Cons

      There is not a good management structure

      4.0
      Oct 21, 2019

      Interesting projects and great domain movability

      Sdeii
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Amazon has a lot of interesting projects and is very product focused as a company. Amazon likes engineer to have ownership, meaning that a developer takes responsibility and has freedom to design and implement his/her product features. It's easy to transfer to another projects to gain different domain of knowledge. Because of the ownership mentality, the company also has many hands-on volunteer programs for career development, i.e. interview bar raiser, security certifier, SDE bootcamp trainer, API reviewer, etc. Even though ambiguity exists in every projects, the product goal is clearly guided by the company leadership principles. The company is very good at commercializing technology for its customers so the chance of SDE's contribution making to the end user stage is very high. As in the tech industry, there are some crunch time when major holiday season approaches, but the company as a whole cares about work-life balance. Flexible hour and working from home are commonly seen among teams.

      Cons

      For external hire, Amazon has higher bar in terms of experience. i.e. x number of years in y company is not equivalent to x number of years in Amazon. The research effort is proportionally small comparing to other mega tech companies. Research projects have limited resource and can be cancelled quickly if not meeting deadline. Contribution to engineering community is relatively small comparing to other tech companies.

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