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      Amazon Software Development Manager reviews

      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

      Software Development Manager employees have rated Amazon with 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 485 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Manager professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Manager professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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      485 reviews
      5.0
      Oct 24, 2018

      Amazon

      Software development manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      High business values, strong leadership principles, ability to identify and hire the best talent.

      Cons

      Aggressive requirements. High cross border influence.

      5.0
      Oct 22, 2018

      Great place to learn, grow, and make a global impact for our customers

      Software development manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Amazon continuously improve to be more customer obsessed each day. Data and metrics are reviewed on a regular basis to ensure we're focusing on the right things. Better yet, in Fulfillment Technologies, the impact of the work directly affects how packages get delivered to our retail customers. If you want to solve complex problems optimized for world wide scale then this is the place to work.

      Cons

      Amazon is not for everyone. If you don't want to be challenged, don't want to grow and learn, or afraid of owning software that's used 24/7 and requires high availability and resiliency, then this isn't the place you want to work at. There's no QA or production support to throw your work over the fence, so you eat your own dog food. The better you build your software the more enjoyable your work life will be.

      4.0
      Oct 5, 2018

      Loads of opportunities to develop

      Software development manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      * High hiring bar = super-smart colleagues * Broad range of projects across disparate domains, allowing for new challenges without moving company * No ivory towers: everyone shares their knowledge, and anyone can challenge anyone else's proposals regardless of level or experience * Plenty of career opportunities: role shifts encouraged & SDE progression does not mean management (although I chose to!) * Competitive salary, benefits & RSUs

      Cons

      * No-one will stop you taking things on: if you don't learn to say "no" you can easily get swamped * Extremely wide grades means promotions are infrequent (it may take 10+ years to get promoted once you've reached 5+ years' experience) and very high-effort

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