Amazon Software and Development Manager reviews

3.3

42% would recommend to a friend

(487 total reviews)
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Andrew Jassy

24% approve of CEO

75% positive business outlook

Software and Development Manager employees have rated Amazon with 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 487 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software and Development Manager professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software and Development Manager professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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487 reviews
5.0
Jul 29, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Always challenging work -Make a difference to bottom-line -Always helping customers -Learn from REALLY smart people -Great pay

Cons

-Oncall can cut into life -Always lots to do, so don't expect a slacking week -Expensive lunch choices in caf and around the area

4.0
Jul 17, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You get to work with very smart people on interesting software projects at the largest scale which involves challenging problems often requiring inventing new techniques and technologies to solve them.

Cons

Their culture of growing to the next level is to prove you're able to get more stuff done quicker which leads to overburn.

5.0
Jan 28, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Rapid professional growth if you are upto some hard work. - Development of business accumen as a side benefit - Good senior leadership

Cons

- Young dev team - they need a lot of mentoring - Above average attrition to Seattle - High work load

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