Amazon reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(209,608 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 209,608 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
1.0
May 4, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

talented co-workers name recognition you can learn lot of cutting edge technology moderately good pay

Cons

only cares about customers, employees are treated like dispensable commodities unfair promotion practice, political; management will invent reasons to not give raise or promotion zero work life balance hard nosed behavior is encouraged in the name of leadership principle pager on-call duties can be really painful sometimes zero respect for engineers, no training, poor documentation, sink or swim environment extreme frugality. you will not find anything that has " calorie" in it if you are hungry. only coffee or tea, the coffee maker runs out of coffee sometimes and they don't bother refilling until next day

1.0
Aug 3, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Pretty decent salary Nice location Looks good on resume Get to work with some really smart people (doesn't mean they can manage well though) Depending on the category, the product samples can be quite nice

Cons

1) The expected work hours are insane and I'm not just talking about the 'holiday push'. I actually worked 70+ hrs for 6 months straight and that still wasn't enough really. Most of the categories are severely understaffed. The strategy seems to offer slightly higher than average salaries but require staff to do the work of two people! 2) Management is worthless. While I can say that most managers I met were incredibly bright people, I can say that almost all of them have ZERO people management skills. 3) MBA recruiting process is a joke. They had the gall to completely change the program AFTER everyone had accepted offers. 4) Benefits are horrible compared to competition.

1.0
Jan 8, 2010

Be Prepared To Do Your Worst Work!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Location, location, location - easy commute if you live in Seattle. Some smart folks working down in the "trenches". An "OK" job for someone right out of school, and never experienced anything better. But a <b>horrible experience</b> for a seasoned professional.

Cons

Multiple projects mislead by mid to upper level management who had no idea what they wanted. Really guys, can you waste anymore of my time on such a simple project? Upper management caving to whims of executive management during project reviews - upper management would say one thing during a team review and do a complete 360 during executive reviews. A dry, sterile work environment…not a lot of happy folks to deal with on a daily basis. A fair number of personality challenged individuals. Archaic publishing systems and mediocre hardware provided to employees.

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