Amazon Software Development Manager reviews

- Benefits are average. Many other top tech companies offer better benefits which can tip the scale when recruiting

First, in general managers do not know anything about actual people's management, most of them used to be engineers and mainly focus on driving tecnical decisions but do little or nothing to develop talent across the company. Second, I find the practice of stack ranking employees an awful one. As an engineer, if you get a crappy manager you are pretty much screw. Even though things seem to be going in the right direction, people still uses the review process as an opportunity to throw people under the bus, providing little or no feedback throughout the year. Third, you have to do a bunch of useless documentation that doesn't go anywhere, as a manager you spend countless on hours doing OP1/Op2 planning but when you actually have to execute the plan things tend to change significantly, so you can't avoid feeling that those months were a total waste of time. Finally, frugality sometimes tend to become cheapness more than anything else, no perks, crappy 401k, common Amazon can do better.