Amazon reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(209,385 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 209,385 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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2.0
Mar 21, 2011
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Pros

Seemingly better pay. Stocks (But you may not stay here for 4 years to reap the benefits). Smart people.

Cons

They hire you as Software "DEVELOPMENT" engineer and making you do everything : QA, Ops etc. They have short project deadlines (<1 month sometimes). This translates to excruciatingly long hours of work. It drastically impacted my family life. Pager supports keeps you awake on a friday night. I used to see fellow Amazonians carrying pager to museums, parks with their family. They may have to stop having fun and work on thier laptop at parks. The compensation sounds interesting for first two years and then falls flat. They talk about frugality all the time which means hardly any office get-togethers. I would discourage Amazon as your future workplace unless work is everything you have in life. Not a engineer friendly company. I moved to bay area and a very happy person now working for Google.

2.0
Mar 19, 2011
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Pros

- other developers on my team are really smart - other developers on team to socialize and commiserate about how awful it is - working for a company that tries to treat its customers well

Cons

- completely disrespectful management with no people skills who think they can develop this project faster and better than anyone on your team and have no interest in listening to anything you say - what do you mean you have a life outside of the office??? (on call rotation; completely unrealistic schedules for completing work items; expectations that you will work late, on weekends and on holidays. I asked to take one day off in 3 weeks, I was told "No", a week later, my manager goes on a 10 day holiday.) - frustrating development tools and environments. non-industry standard, outdated documentation

3.0
Mar 19, 2011
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Pros

If you like your work time spent in actually 'doing' your job and not divide it between attending various planning meetings, then this is a place to be.

Cons

There is actually no process in place for any thing. For growing company, it is time they have some of the basic processes in place. Employees can then spend more time doing their job rather than spending time developing such a process for themselves. Since the process is ad hoc, any changes to the system results in spending some more time in adapting the individual process to the system.

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