Amazon Software Development Manager III reviews

3.4

40% would recommend to a friend

(118 total reviews)
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37% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Software Development Manager III employees have rated Amazon with 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 118 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Manager III professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Manager III professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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118 reviews
3.0
Apr 5, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Very talented and professional engineers. Interesting problems to solve. Good relocation and hiring bonus, decent base salary. It will be a learning experience, no matter what your background is. Strong company culture and good team spirit.

Cons

The high hiring bar and mandatory layoffs every year makes is hard to keep your team fully staffed. You will spend a lot of time recruiting. Management is distrusting by nature, and playing devil's advocate seems to be a corporate pastime. Expect strictly negative reinforcement and to hear that you are not doing good enough. Being a bully is considered a value, and a requirement for advancement.

4.0
Apr 2, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1. Good pay at higher levels (SDE 3+) 2. Excellent range of opportunities - work from UI to the largest web services infrastructure in the world to machine learning to consumer products (Kindle).. If you get bored of one team, moving to another is straightforward. 3. High achievers are rewarded well 4. Super focused and competent senior management

Cons

1. The frugality (cheapness) gets old after a while. 2. Growing as an individual contributor after the SDE 2 level is made ridiculously tough and is completely team dependent; an SDE 2-3 promotion in a technically strong team might take years (or never happen) with the same promotion take a few months in some other teams 3. Uneven quality across groups and teams - there needs to be a consistent hiring bar. 4. Employees are treated largely as cogs. The pager hell is real and can be bad depending on the team.

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