Amazon Software Development Manager reviews

3.4

48% would recommend to a friend

(484 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 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
Feb 25, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You will learn a lot and be very busy. You'll see a well set up, opinionated way of doing things. You sill work with incredibly talented people.

Cons

Your experience depends on your org-- choose carefully. Recent actions and announcements from the senior leadership team do not at all follow Amazon's leadership principles.

2.0
Feb 22, 2023

SDM

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

scale of business to handle and influence if you can write great tech strategy docs. good chance to grow if the charter is clear and team is tenured and if you have good PE support good pay

Cons

your leaders play a great role in if you break or win. if they are weak, no matter how good you are you will fail. most of the leadership don't care in helping you with any challenges but you will be under the mercy of tenured SDEs in the team. SDEs can leave you overnight to other teams or give you bad feedback through connections surveys if you try to improve their performance. There is no bottom line from team unless they are awaiting a promotion, else they can just leave the team anytime you have a challenging situation.

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