Amazon Software and 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 and 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 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 Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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486 reviews
3.0
Dec 17, 2014

Chaotic

Recommend
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Pros

Smart people and good salary for the first two years of employment.

Cons

Frugal - very little perks. Very big company with lots of moving parts. Lots of dependencies create a slow moving behemoth.

4.0
Oct 24, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I can only speak to AWS rather than Amazon as a whole. And one's experience at a company is at least 50% determined by the quality of their direct manager. So YMMV, but in my experience you will become better at whatever you do. Amazon Web Services is a hard place to work and is not for everyone. But it does have massive opportunities for those who want to grow. We do work hard. If you want a strict 9:00-5:00 job that doesn’t involve being oncall then AWS is not the place for you. But if you are an engineer (or manager) who wants to grow; wants to know how to code and own a system handling a significant percent of the world’s internet traffic; and work in an environment where you are surrounded by incredibly smart people who will challenge you beyond what you thought you were capable of, then you should be interviewing at AWS.

Cons

Its hard. You will work hard. You will no longer be the smartest person in the room. If you don't learn how to self-pace and say 'no' when necessary you will burn out rapidly.

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