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      3.4

      48% would recommend to a friend

      (485 total reviews)
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      Andrew Jassy

      27% approve of CEO

      71% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.1

      Compensation and benefits

      3.7

      Career opportunities

      3.6

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.1

      Culture & values

      2.6

      Senior management

      2.4

      Work/Life balance

      Manager, Software Development employees have rated Amazon with 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 485 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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      485 reviews
      4.0
      Jul 20, 2014

      Nice place to work. But not without its own share of politics

      Software development manager
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      Pros

      Access to excellent engineering minds, start-up atmosphere, work from home, pay, benefits, stock options, internal transfer You will be more successful if you start off as an engineer here.

      Cons

      No proactive mentoring, rather use hire/fire method, over complicating solutions, operational, abstracted systems, delay in hiring

      2.0
      Jul 11, 2014

      A real mixed bag

      Software development manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      The people are fantastic - the recruitment process ensures you'll get excellent, technically skilled, challenging colleagues. The technology is brilliant - Amazon as a whole really leads with the standard of internal technology. Working in the Glasshouse means you're working on Amazon Instant Video, which is a very sexy (and interesting) product.

      Cons

      Your experience will vary massively depending on who manages you. Management standards are wildly inconsistent, and some of the most senior managers display surprisingly amateurish leadership skills. The culture is very bureaucratic - expect to deal in wordy narrative documents for everything from feature specs to promotion justification. The constant priority shifts mean teams don't actually deliver a lot. The operational support required means a lot of engineers spend a week every month getting woken up in the middle of the night on a regular basis.

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