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

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
Feb 27, 2021
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Pros

* Learn a lot (something new every day), with dynamic culture & interesting coworkers * I manage an enthusiastic and invested team of mostly non-US citizens (though the citizens are also enthusiastic & invested, to be crystal clear) * Salaried, working over 40 hours on average, but not worked to death - maybe 43-45 hours / week? * I own a couple of software services that we built fully native AWS, according to security & operational best practices, that internal customers love and which we may take public some day

Cons

* Not every manager I work with is as invested nor as interested as most, and these people tend to be roadblocks for people like me * I have to fight the stack ranking process during performance review time, maybe I'm too empathetic sometimes * It can be very difficult to get a hold of a principal engineer for technical advice for my relatively junior team, which has led to me needing refactors for the software built before I took on the team

4.0
Feb 23, 2021
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Pros

Lord of talented people and great opportunity to learn and develop

Cons

A lot of stretch goals requiring fast delivery leading to below Barr systems sometimes requiring heavy ops later

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