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      Amazon Software Development Manager reviews

      3.4

      56% would recommend to a friend

      (483 total reviews)
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      Andrew Jassy

      33% approve of CEO

      66% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.1

      Compensation and benefits

      3.9

      Career opportunities

      3.5

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.3

      Culture & values

      2.8

      Senior management

      2.5

      Work/Life balance

      Software Development Manager employees have rated Amazon with 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 483 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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      483 reviews
      2.0
      Mar 27, 2026

      Messy org

      Software development manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      My team and peers are great to work with. They make life at Amazon more bearable.

      Cons

      You get thrown into the deep end and are expected to know how to swim Re-orgs/layoffs have teams struggling for domain knowledge

      3.0
      Mar 18, 2026

      System Development Manager

      Software development manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Amazon scale, AWS, distributed systems, Microservice architecture is something that everyone learns about. It is great company who is starting there career or they are the earlier stages of their career. You get to learn a lot, once you have worked for company like Amazon other companies you might star performer.

      Cons

      Work culture is cut throat, very high expectations and you must dedicate your whole time to the company if you want to survive. Lately there is not even talk about work life harmony, even if you the best, there is lingering stress of layoffs and there is no job security.

      4.0
      Feb 4, 2026

      good place to work

      Software development manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      opportunities to learn lots of new technologies and work with smart people.

      Cons

      Post AI, confusion at peak. layoffs are causing frequent reorg. motivation is impacted because of high panic situation

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