Amazon Software Development Manager reviews

3.3

46% would recommend to a friend

(486 total reviews)
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26% approve of CEO

72% positive business outlook

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
5.0
Sep 17, 2018
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Pros

- This is the first time in my career when I'm surrounded with nothing but incredibly smart and focused individuals. - Compensation is well beyond my expectations, and more than suitable. - Exciting projects all across the company that keep you interested and focused. - Ability to reach customers all across the world with unbelievable new technologies. - Ability to focus on the customer without worrying about what the other companies in the same field are doing. - Company not worried about failing, know that you can learn from your mistakes and still come out on top.

Cons

- Some people are too afraid not to meet deadlines, which at times makes you sacrifice quality for delivery. - Depending on which team you're on, culture might be a huge impact on your day to day job. - Some managers remain, even though they drive away great employees from their teams just because they deliver results. - Proper access to upper management is sometimes not available, and causes problems to the people making things happen day to day. - If you don't keep track of your own schedule, you can be working 100 hour weeks without even noticing.

4.0
Sep 17, 2018

Always Day 1

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Pros

Everything is driven through the lenses of the Leadership Principles, so it's very easy to know how to succeed and grow here. There are incredibly smart people here, so it's very difficult not to learn and grow your career at an accelerated pace. Above industry average compensation.

Cons

No-one will manage your career or workload for you and Amazon will take everything you want to give it. So if you're overworked, it's your job to not let that happen. If you're not good at pushing back, don't apply.

5.0
Sep 7, 2018
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Pros

- first-class software organization - peculiar leadership principles, and the employees do breathe and live with them. They are really and frequently used in assessing strategies, products, processes, and people. - senior leaders are often right a lot and dive deep - lots of internal transfer opportunities and different career choices - contrary to a lot external articles, there are a lot of care and support from management, HR, and company level. the benefits are decent.

Cons

Extreme frugality: you need to spend time to get lunch outside the office, the coffee in the office is extremely light, workspace is a bit crowded, the IT equipments are pretty basic. Admittedly this is also why Amazon is so successful in keeping the price low.

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