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3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(209,026 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 209,026 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
Jun 24, 2008

Welcome to the Matrix

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Pros

In the old days (1995-2002), the people who worked here were incredibly smart, talented, interesting, versatile. I have never worked with a smarter group. Ever. It was like being in an elite college--that level of intelligence, but in a work environment. Very fun and stimulating.

Cons

Treat employees like disposable batteries. They will use you up and find fresh batteries to replace you.

2.0
Jun 23, 2008
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Pros

Good for new graduates to work for 1 or 2 years.

Cons

no work life balance. below average benefit package. bad working environment. regular overtime is expected. software engineer needs to carry pager to keep production system running. often gets waken up at 3am for issues in code not written by you.

4.0
Jun 23, 2008
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Pros

very interesting distributed system; large problems; can get work done;

Cons

sometimes hard to get all the right groups working together; I hate watching the same mistake happen just because it's a new team; operations load is non-trivial; sometimes it feels like a bad cross between a startup with not enough resources and a big company with too much bureaucracy

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