Amazon Sr. Software Development Manager reviews

3.6

49% would recommend to a friend

(116 total reviews)
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45% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Sr. Manager Software Development employees have rated Amazon with 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 116 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Sr. Manager Software Development professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Sr. Manager Software Development professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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116 reviews
4.0
Feb 3, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

High hiring bar and the bar is raised all the time. Keeps the company moving forward. You have the freedom to experiment and challenge existing practices, just bring data. Great executive team. They dive deep and challenge you. Make sure you are prepared.

Cons

Can be a tough environment for some. The bar keeps getting raised and some long-time employees fall below it and find themselves managed out. Unfortunately the bar is within each org which means there are pockets of deadwood floating around and not delivering resluts.

4.0
Aug 30, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Innovation, innovation, innovation. Work hard. Have fun. Make history. It truly still is "day 1" at Amazon. Amazon loves to try new things and we give people room to fail. Failure is important if one learns from the mistakes. And every now and then great new ideas are born. Look at Web Services, look at things like Mechanical Turk. These are awesome, awesome projects to work on. Amazon has some of the smartest people in the industry. Think of what you can do when you are together with so many great minds!

Cons

The amount of work is often borderline insane and we have a tendency to burn out people. We need to watch this.

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