Amazon Software Development Manager reviews

3.4

48% would recommend to a friend

(484 total reviews)
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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
Oct 7, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

1. High Quality work 2. Freedom of execution 3. Great team mates

Cons

1. Increasing work pressure - Sometimes 2. Frustrating and irrelevant insistence of high bar

3.0
Oct 3, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

* Very smart people across the board * Endless opportunities to work on challenging problems * Ability to work on many different types of products without changing companies (e.g. operations support, front-end, digital, web services, developer tools, etc.) * Good stock performance (over past few years)

Cons

* Location - South Lake Union (in Seattle) is hip and clean, but also expensive (e.g. lunches, parking, etc.) * Hours - employees more often than not have to work above and beyond to meet senior management expectations (leads to bad work:life balance - i.e. not good for family life) * Politics

2.0
Jul 5, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great place to learn about how to develop software, and how to support it. Learn what it means to be customer focused.

Cons

You have two choices: Burn out with over-work, or play politics to save your skin. Promotions are based on favoritism in many cases. If you complain to HR about abuse from upper management, be sure they will rat on you and collude to destroy you. Leave before it gets to that.

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