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      3.5

      60% would recommend to a friend

      (209,159 total reviews)
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      Andrew Jassy

      50% approve of CEO

      57% positive business outlook

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      3.8

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.7

      Compensation and benefits

      3.5

      Career opportunities

      3.2

      Culture & values

      3.1

      Work/Life balance

      3.0

      Senior management

      Amazon has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 209,159 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
      4.0
      Oct 24, 2014

      Its hard, but worth it

      Software development manager
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      Pros

      I can only speak to AWS rather than Amazon as a whole. And one's experience at a company is at least 50% determined by the quality of their direct manager. So YMMV, but in my experience you will become better at whatever you do. Amazon Web Services is a hard place to work and is not for everyone. But it does have massive opportunities for those who want to grow. We do work hard. If you want a strict 9:00-5:00 job that doesn’t involve being oncall then AWS is not the place for you. But if you are an engineer (or manager) who wants to grow; wants to know how to code and own a system handling a significant percent of the world’s internet traffic; and work in an environment where you are surrounded by incredibly smart people who will challenge you beyond what you thought you were capable of, then you should be interviewing at AWS.

      Cons

      Its hard. You will work hard. You will no longer be the smartest person in the room. If you don't learn how to self-pace and say 'no' when necessary you will burn out rapidly.

      1.0
      Jul 21, 2014

      Swamped with legacy hacks

      Software development engineer i
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      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      There are great opportunities and the scale at which Amazon operates is amazing.

      Cons

      Only 10% of the time is spent on new development, and the rest we are putting out fires. Prepare to inherit a legacy of hacks with little tests and no documentation (tribal knowledge is the norm). You will have to keep this software running 24/7 and do whatever it takes to keep it up to date with whatever changes in the runtime environment.

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