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

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
3.0
Mar 18, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Amazon scale, AWS, distributed systems, Microservice architecture is something that everyone learns about. It is great company who is starting there career or they are the earlier stages of their career. You get to learn a lot, once you have worked for company like Amazon other companies you might star performer.

Cons

Work culture is cut throat, very high expectations and you must dedicate your whole time to the company if you want to survive. Lately there is not even talk about work life harmony, even if you the best, there is lingering stress of layoffs and there is no job security.

4.0
Feb 4, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

opportunities to learn lots of new technologies and work with smart people.

Cons

Post AI, confusion at peak. layoffs are causing frequent reorg. motivation is impacted because of high panic situation

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