Amazon reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(209,290 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 209,290 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
Apr 26, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You're surrounded by very smart people and work/projects that are technically challenging and interesting. Amazon seems like just a website to most but the technology in place behind the scenes is very fascinating. Highly distributed systems built to scale at massive levels.

Cons

No real perks besides a bus pass but that's made up with competitive compensation. You work A LOT and the pager duty can be a real pain sometimes. Then again, by working a lot I'm learning a lot so its really how you perceive it. Wish the remote development offices had more interesting work (my opinion), sometimes I could use a break from the Seattle weather

1.0
Apr 26, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

free crap from vendors hush $/severence when they let you go.

Cons

no work/life balance 24/7 blackberry - on call 365. management is completely incompetent HR is not there to help employees - only to keep management from getting sued. do not go to HR for any reason including anything legal, best way to get yourself fired.

4.0
Apr 25, 2010

Amazon: Mixed bag

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

In general, the company and th emanagers set very clear business goals. The product planning team works very well. Morale within the teams is generally quite high.

Cons

The work is often not very technically challenging. While reviews by Jeff are very inspirational, sometimes the lack of academic or technical challenges is a bit of a downer.

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