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      Amazon Software Development Manager reviews

      3.3

      46% would recommend to a friend

      (486 total reviews)
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      Andrew Jassy

      26% approve of CEO

      72% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.0

      Compensation and benefits

      3.7

      Career opportunities

      3.6

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.1

      Culture & values

      2.6

      Senior management

      2.3

      Work/Life balance

      Software Development Manager employees have rated Amazon with 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 486 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 Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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      486 reviews
      4.0
      Oct 5, 2018

      Loads of opportunities to develop

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      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

      4.0
      Oct 2, 2018

      Software Development Manager

      Software development manager
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      Pros

      People often mention that life in Amazon is stressful, on-call load, work life balance issues etc. Trust me that's all wrong. I am in Amazon for close to 5 years now and I really enjoy working at Amazon. I am motivated every day to go to work and solve some real complex issues related to business or tech, and what keeps me motivated is the peers, team, senior leaders that you work with. Amazon has the best workforce at all levels and you get to learn a lot from them and become successful in your career. Amazon takes care of work life balance, lots of employee benefits, work culture is the best. When I joined Amazon almost 5 years back I had heard similar stuff about slogging, work life balance etc. but it all turned out to be wrong and I am happy that I took the right decision at that time and did not go with what rumors I had heard.

      Cons

      Politics at higher level, and that's part of every other company.

      5.0
      Sep 30, 2018

      Awesome if you love independence and hate bureaucracy

      Software development manager
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      Pros

      Freedom to take your ideas from inception to execution. Not confined by roles/titles. Very bottom-up culture with decisions driven from recommendations collected from team members. Ever dreamt of running your own business without worrying about funding yourself? - Amazon can offer you that kind of freedom if you manage to convince others with your ideas. You are surrounded by really smart and really nice (most) people that you can learn from.

      Cons

      Not for someone who can't go beyond their role definition. Do it yourself culture that can be frustrating in the beginning .

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