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Software Development Engineer II

Software Development Engineer II
Current Employee
Has worked at Amazon for 4 years
May 29, 2017
Seattle, Washington
4.0
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Pros

Build systems that impact a lot of people and do huge things. If your team isn't making millions of dollars a year, you'll be on a new team soon.

Coworkers who range from competent to excellent.

Decent pay for the area.

Cons

If you're on a team with bad managers, you will hate life. At least there is a new policy allowing you to transfer ASAP, which you should do. (- culture/values)

Things are a bit too team-dependent. I'm on a team I like. There are other teams that cannot retain people at all because their managers straight up suck at their jobs. (- senior management)(- culture/values)

Comp is decent but not competitive with Google/Facebook/Uber. (- comp rating)

Crunch time is a management failure, so you can expect to see it a few times a year. (- work/life)

Advice to Management

Hold management accountable for being terrible.

If all of your devs quit multiple times, that manager needs to be fired (from senior management).

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