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      3.5

      60% would recommend to a friend

      (209,437 total reviews)
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      Andrew Jassy

      50% approve of CEO

      57% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      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 209,437 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
      3.0
      Jun 12, 2008

      Decent for a first job out of college, but don't stay too long.

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      You're given a lot of responsibility (depending on the team, of course), which is a good learning experience for someone fresh out of college. You get a 10% employee discount (okay, I'm running out of good things to say, and I need to get to 100 words-- seriously, if you are ambitious, there just aren't a lot of good reasons for you to stay at Amazon).

      Cons

      You are a cog in the machine. It's run by MBA-types who make stupid requests. Pager duty sucks. There systems are extremely fragile, and you will have to spend nights and weekends because of the incompetence of others. People clock out at 5pm. There is very little passion among the other developers.

      4.0
      Jun 11, 2008

      Stimulating place to work -- helps to be thick-skinned

      Product manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      1) On-going flow of innovative ideas that provides a sense that you're working on the cutting edge. 2) Smart, capable and interesting colleagues.

      Cons

      Extremely high expectations. Brings about great effort but scant feelings of having done a job well.

      4.0
      Jun 11, 2008

      Great place to work for and lots of talent to learn from...

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Amazon is a very dynamic workplace with lots of interesting challenges and technologies to work on. With mix of retail and cloud computing there is a great deal of verity that Amazon offers to its employees. It is also encouraged to change groups periodically to help with career growth of employees. Comp is good and at par with industry standards. The workplace is not very political and management tries to remove road blocks where necessary. Career growth wise, you have control over where you want to be and set proper goals to reach your target. Management will encourage you every step of the way.

      Cons

      Being a retail driven company availability of the website is very important for the business. This can cause some tensions specially if you are not used to working in operationally critical environments. There are going to be times when you are required to carry pagers. Although things have greatly improved in terms of quality of life, while oncall you are bound to your laptop. On the other note, benefits at amazon are not the best. Some of the other companies in the area do offer better benefit packages as compared to Amazon including the 401k matching, medical, fitness center membership and espp.

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