Amazon reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(209,652 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 209,652 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
Nov 5, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

The best of working for Amazon is the high salaries. Amazon is a company with a great Software Infrastructure, outstanding I would say in term of potential growth, as software engineer that is a good challenge to get a good picture of how everything works, but after few months once you get used to for that your working days become repetitive, day after day just sending email, writing docs and reviewing other people docs. Mostly everyone working in Amazon is very qualified and clever, but in the flip side most of them lack of professional experience out of Amazon, that comes down to developers who does not have real experience in software development just on amazon development which is not necessarily the same as Amazon provides very particular and unique way to work.

Cons

The concept of teams and collaboration is not prmoted by the company, instead Amazon promote values which derive in a environment of arrogance and compatibility which is not healthy and makes some team member very uncomfortable. My personal experience was that everyone is just looking at their personal growth instead of a team success and sharing knowledge and experience was a very rare occasion. In my opinion the worse of working for Amazon is the level of abstraction that infrastructure brings which ends up in making developers only good as Amazon developer and not a just developer. As developer was very disappointing to feeling that everything I was learning was going to be useful in meanwhile I stay working for Amazon

2.0
Nov 1, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Only stocks and the experience. You do a lot of things everyday that you'd do once in awhile in the traditional setting.

Cons

Bluntly stated - the job sucks, lol. HRBPs are incompetent and create more stress than solves, though they are "hand-picked" as Behavioral Champions. Lots and lots of bureaucracy. Underpaid for the scale/scope of work you do. ER is out the door when it comes to upper management. Senior Leaders are extremely disrespectful with no leash due to HRBP/HRMs attempting to preserve relationships. Lots of opportunity, just not a feasible/reasonable possibility in securing those opportunities. Internal recruiting process is extremely flawed. This is a crap work role. Most HRAs leave the company/organization and honestly do not promote. You'll enjoy your work for a maximum of 1 year.

2.0
Oct 29, 2018

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Pros

Nationwide Recognition for growth in industry.

Cons

Can’t get a background check done? Friend applied and never received notice of start or orientation but received benefits information?

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