Amazon Software Development Manager reviews

I work as a software development manager for Amazon at Seattle. What I like most about working at Amazon is the ability to make large scale impact on the way the world buys stuff. And I get to do that of my own accord. Autonomy, independent thinking and ownership are encouraged here better than any other place that I know of. Amazon is a great place for builders and if you enjoy building things (robots at home, software at work, the works...) - then you will love working here. As you will hear a lot of Amazonian's say "there is scale and then there is Amazon scale". I do not know of any other place that provides the cusp of physical scale and computing scale that Amazon provides. Physically moving goods across the world based on some person clicking a buy now button on the website - and doing it a very large number of times very day - brings with it some very interesting (including several unsolved) problems. it is a lot of fun to work on such problems. Amazon is also a place that rewards diversity of thinking and approach. That has brought together a whole bunch of very interesting and smart people. I learn a lot every day that I show up at work. Amazon also has one of the most flexible internal move policies - so it is super easy to find something within the company that you are interested in working on and start working on it! It is a very fast paced environment where something is happening all the time. Never a dull moment. That includes spirited white board discussions, quick team stand-ups and some noisy Friday evenings :)

End to end ownership and the ability to directly impact decisions.