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

Manager Software Development employees have rated Amazon with 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 486 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Manager Software Development professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Manager Software Development professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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486 reviews
5.0
Dec 8, 2022

SDM

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Pros

Day 1 culture. Innovating on behalf of Amazon's clients . Employees are owners and having the freedom to suggest ideas and take decisions. surrounding by top talents and leaders

Cons

you can feel the pressure quickly.

5.0
Nov 29, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Real Autonomy on individual and team level: each team here "owns" something and is independent / empowered to make decisions. - Full CI/CD: manual change management is limited to a handful of things, which frees u managers to focus on what matters instead of managing approvals and signoffs - Leadership principles in action: Amazon is one of the companies that walk the talk. LPs are embedded in many things. I personally identify with most of the LPs so it's amazing that I can bring my whole self to work and know that it will be welcomed - Flex hours: aside from meetings, I get to set my own schedule. This is very helpful in getting better work-life harmony - Respect: oh yes. In my team it is expected that people have lives outside work so everyone respects everyone's time, and working overtime is never discussed.

Cons

Well this one is not specific about Amazon, but the role itself even elsewhere: one of the duties of devops teams is to maintain the code they write, which means being oncall every few weeks. It can be stressful to be paged in the middle of the night, but it is a part of SDM's life I guess.

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