Amazon Software Development Manager reviews

3.4

48% would recommend to a friend

(484 total reviews)
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27% approve of CEO

71% positive business outlook

Software Development Manager employees have rated Amazon with 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 484 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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484 reviews
4.0
Sep 26, 2015
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Pros

Work hard. Learn a lot. Get better and then raise the bar again to work harder. It's a place that will push you to grow and provide feedback on your journey.

Cons

It's a place where smart people go to feel bad about themselves. You are in a pool of amazing folk. Everyone around you is exceptional in some way.

3.0
Sep 25, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Pushing the limit on building highly scalable, bleeding edge services. Employees are focused on the right thing for users and there is a high degree of ownership.

Cons

Work life balance is more difficult to maintain unless you are willing to sacrifice upward trajectory. Questionable value placed on engineers and providing them with the best tools to do their job.

5.0
Sep 13, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

I've been at Amazon for several years in different technical roles and teams as engineer, project manager, engineering manager etc.. Overall, my experience has been very positive and I would recommend Amazon as a good place to work to my friends. * Generally low bureaucracy due to decentralization of decision making - decisions get made quickly and you can focus on doing your job * Work with really smart and capable people - the hiring process is tough and most people that get hired are exceptional * long term thinking around most business initiatives gives us room to make mistakes, learn from them and get better. Other places I have worked at prior to Amazon are myopic about the bottom line that lead to many poor decisions. * Strong culture around try hard things and successfully executing on them - this experience will make you better at whatever you do after this. * the company is still growing incredibly fast (the employee count doubles every twenty months even though its been 20 years since the company was founded). This translates to lots of new and exciting projects and ideas being worked on across the company

Cons

* While many managers at the company are exceptional, there are many ineffective managers as well; main reason is on-going training/coaching for new managers is insufficient. Your experience at Amazon (as with most companies of this size) depends a lot on your manager so take care to ask them good questions while interviewing to get a good idea on how it is to work with the manager * While base compensation/stock grants are very good, other benefits such as 401(k), medical etc. are weak compared to competitors in the software development industry (though are much better than other employers in general)

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