Amazon reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(209,120 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 209,120 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
Nov 17, 2016
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Pros

Amazon brand on resume helps

Cons

What a nightmare! I was a full-time recruiter and working there was a joke. We had to utilize behavioral interview questions (aligned with the Leadership Principles). It was robotic and antiquated. You had to kiss up to Management to survive. Recruiters were unprofessional, immature and backstabbing. Managers had no leadership or strategic exp. No company perks, overworked, stressed and underpaid. Stay a year, if you can last and get out of there.

3.0
Dec 10, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

I would recommend, but with strong hesitancy: -Straight out of college I made $50k with no experience in Human Resources. Heck, my degree was in liberal arts. Very few of my peers could say the same. -If you want to see different places, Amazon has a lot of different locations around the US and transfers are pretty commonplace. -You will meet enthusiastic, intelligent people who you will learn to love like family. -You will grow an incredible amount professionally, I do appreciate what Amazon did for me professionally. I went from a Sr. Human Resource Assistant position at Amazon to a Human Resources Manager position at another company after my stay with Amazon.

Cons

-Zero work/life balance. Do you have children? Are you married? If you answered yes, look somewhere else. You will virtually never see your children and/or your spouse. I know mothers and father who were constantly torn between family and career, don't do that to yourself, no paycheck is worth it. -High turnover in HR and in other departments is a definite discouragement. -They say you can take personal time at "any time" but for Human Resources, that is a joke. Unless you are sick/doc appt/car trouble, you will be guilted into coming in every day except for the precious 7-10 days you take off for vacation. I used my personal time for coming in 10 min late every day for several weeks because I knew I was never going to take off a whole day and I was reprimanded. -You will be expected to do in 40 hrs a week what should really take 50-55 hrs a week. I was hourly but I regularly took my computer home to work on work without pay. -They do tell you upfront that you will work the holidays, I was told that in my first interview. But, you have to work the holidays. You will learn to semi-dread the holidays. -I received little to no training coming into my role. I've heard they're finally setting something up, but Amazon is like nowhere you've ever worked before, and a 2-3 week training is quite simply, never going to be enough.

4.0
Nov 1, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Great adventure, experience, and a growth opportunity to work with some of the more amazing people in the industry

Cons

The entire company is built around the idea of a 2-year employee. There is a phrase in the company called "The Golden Handcuffs" - the stock bonuses that mature years later such that you're always leaving something on the table. Benefits, training, bonuses, everything is built around keeping an engineer for two years - and less than 2% of employees make it past that point.

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