Amazon reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(209,513 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 209,513 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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210K reviews
2.0
Aug 10, 2016

Profit > People

Recommend
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Pros

The salary is competitive, and if you stick it out for 2-3 years you can usually collect on a decent stock package. Depending on which org you're in, they're semi-flexible about working remotely, and have great benefits. If you're a self-starter who likes to learn everything they can, you'll have plenty of opportunity to grow here.

Cons

The subjective performance review system is demotivating at best, demoralizing at worst. Raises for non-tech workers hover in the 1%-2% per year range even if you get a good review (at least in my experience working there since 2013). Also, promotions don't come automatically like they do at other places--- it's not enough to work your butt off and be awesome at your job. Even if you have mountains of data to prove you're worth the promo, you'll never get it if you're not out there shamelessly self-promoting in order to get the attention of those people whose subjective performance review feedback you need. That being said, the employees who have the best work ethics and get the most accomplished simply don't have time for a lot of glad handing, which puts them at a disadvantage when it comes to promotions. Unfortunately, the inverse seems to be true as well, where employees who are good at playing office politics and knocking beers back with their bros after work tend to get promoted left and right. There's not a lot of diversity, and women especially have to fight harder to be noticed and rewarded for the hard work they do. Not to mention there have been a few issues in my org where women have been harassed by male co-workers, but HR doesn't protect the victims--- they're told it's a "he said, she said" situation.

5.0
Jul 23, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Great pay, awesome benefits, upper management cares and listen. Very laid back company.

Cons

I was given the option to resign or be let go after I miss 3 days of work while being in the hospital. With their policy's, I was not elegable for medical leave since I didn't miss 7 days. Doesn't make scene but it is what it is and I live in FL so nothing I could do. I would work there again. I really like it.

2.0
Jun 1, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Lot of challenging work, quite a bit of smart people, cutting edge technology, some company wide practices are great like writing working backward document before start building a product

Cons

Lot of smart people but most of them are weird, narcissistic, arrogant or loud. its hard to find normal people. Even though there are lot of learning opportunities you end up learning nothing. the main reason, there are always too much work (volume wise) but not quality wise. there are too many cross team initiatives, you cannot focus and work on one thing and feel accomplished. if you love your life, really feel passionate about work, find a better employer, this place will suck the blood out of every employee and sometime you realize it much later after spending few years with them

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