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3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(209,456 total reviews)
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50% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

Amazon has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 209,456 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Amazon employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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209K reviews
1.0
Aug 24, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

There is nothing great about this team.

Cons

AWS Infrastructure Finance is comprised of highly egoistic people This team is run by a head who rules with iron hand. Within this team, there is an inner circle of favorites to this head. This favoritism club is not formed on the basis of meritocracy but rather some random criteria known only to the ring leader. Now if you are unfortunate to join this team, only one of two things will happen to you - Either your will become part of this inner circle and thrive Or you will be mercilessly thrown out of the company after you have worked 90 hours per week on a regular basis. So this place is like Game of Thrones; If you are politically very smart and can throw your team mates under the bus at opportune moments, you will thrive. Else you will die (figuratively speaking). Not only this head is ruthless, her directs are some of extremely worse people. Few of her directs have no good education background nor the experience to reach to the position they currently occupy. These guys are unintelligent and often make fool of themselves in meetings with business partners. But they have sky-rocket egos making them among most hated people in the company. It will be a nightmare if you happen to work with these guys; there will be no directions provided to you and you will see your self going under the waters very fast.

3.0
May 25, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great team members. Great office. Good benefits and compensation.

Cons

Not really what they advertise; Work-life balance is really off. Tasks not challenging enough. Not too many opportunities to learn new technologies.

1.0
May 20, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

* Very smart people to work with * Some of the teams have great work that you can learn a lot

Cons

My recent manager gave me work much more than I could do. He knew it is a lot and when I confronted him that it is impossible to complete over 150 hours of work in a sprint, he said "Figure it out. Those are just estimates". He meant I should be working day and night and also over the weekend to get the work done - which I did to save my job. But, after that this behavior continued. There was no appreciation for the work done. Many things that were written in my annual review was baseless and wrong. There is no work culture in Amazon. It is way below average. No fun, just work and work! Few people are really nice to work with but its hard to find such people. I would definitely not recommend anyone to work at Amazon. Their pay scale is also too less.

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