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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
      2.0
      Mar 11, 2014

      Unprofessional, unrespectful environment

      Software development manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Good talent pool - Decent salary

      Cons

      - Politics - Company does not care to control politics as long as work gets done - No bothering about quality - just deliver and fix later - Starting from a Director level, people gets kicked out for no reasons if the top management decides so. Performance ratings are not justified. - Bad managers probably illusioned by the company culture - Finally no respect for your quality software, development methodologies and management strategies effectively nullifying you.

      4.0
      Mar 10, 2014

      Hard but productive work

      Software development manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Get to impact a lot of customers on a regular basis, work with smart people, solve complex issues.

      Cons

      The work life balance need to be fixed in the London Development Centre, its running at an unsustainable pace at the moment

      4.0
      Feb 7, 2014

      The sky's the limit if you work hard

      Software development manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Amazon is a place where people are encouraged to look for challenges to step up to. If you're hungry and nail these opportunities, there's always more, bigger ones to keep knocking down. Top talent at Amazon is rewarded extremely well. Everybody here is scary smart. The brightest can rise fast. As far as software companies go, Amazon is definitely top tier. Our technology is unbelievable, and you won't believe some of the awesome stuff we're working on.

      Cons

      Benefits are just ok (probably more than offset by comp though). The environment can feel like a startup still in a few places around the company, but YMMV and you're more likely to find yourself in a division that feels corporatey. This is much less the case for engineers who are generally shielded from too much BS by their managers. Expect to work longer than 40 hours a week on most teams, in most roles. There can be slack times, but when launch approaches (or it's Q4 for anyone working near the retail website), you'll find yourself leaning in pretty hard for short bursts.

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