Amazon Software Development Manager reviews

Great growth opportunities. Super place to learn with smartest people

I have worked for Amazon for over 4 years now and there are reasons that i have been here that long without getting a thought of leaving even once. 1) In the first year itself i was awed by the shear intelligence of folks around. Due to the high bar of hiring, Amazon tends to hire smartest workforce and that's why i have always had learning opportunities from 360 degrees. There are people who are much junior to you and yet are smart and there are folks above you who you can learn from. Which is unique to all other employers i have had. 2) As my journey continues with Amazon i started loving the fact that promotions and raises are tightly tied to performance. Promotions are a rigorous process but if you are a good performer then all falls in place for you. Politics does not play in, the processes and mechanisms in place ensure that the deserving folks get to the next level. The icing on the cake in there in no time in role requirement to get to next level. If you can perform at next level, you will get there. 3) Last and most important reason that i have started appreciating in last couple of years is that the yearly planning process in bottoms up. I most companies the goals are decided up top and then they flow down. Not true here ! At Amazon, each teach team decides its own fates and proposes what great things it will do next year and then that planning process flows upwards. Which gives tech teams autonomy to do stuff which makes it super unique.