Amazon Software Development Manager reviews

3.4

48% would recommend to a friend

(484 total reviews)
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27% approve of CEO

71% positive business outlook

Manager, Software Development employees have rated Amazon with 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 484 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Manager, Software Development professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Manager, Software Development professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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484 reviews
5.0
Jun 19, 2016

Good job!

Recommend
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Pros

Good management; ownership; bias for action

Cons

work life balance; take care of engineers.

4.0
Apr 10, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

In my experience, Amazon's leadership principles guide the company. There's emphasis on working backwards from the customer to deliver value, on innovation, and on technical excellence. There's willingness to take risk, and willingness to learn from poor outcomes, rather than look for someone to blame.

Cons

Amazon's out dated personnel system means competition, rather than collaboration, among those who understand there must be a low performer, and low performers are moved out of the business. Excessive demand on development teams, coupled with poor support structures, mean dev's and dev managers are constantly pushed to do more with less, then held accountable for not having time to go deep, deliver value, etc.

4.0
Mar 20, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Smart people to work with. Oppertunity to change within BLR or in US if you do not like the org. Growth is good.

Cons

Facing challneges of big companies now. At times it takes a lot of process to get things done. no longer a start-up.

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