Amazon reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(209,006 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 209,006 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
Jun 13, 2008
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Pros

Surviving the abuse will give you unbelievable skills. Most of your peers are incredibly smart, competent, and talented people who will teach you all the things you didn't learn in school.

Cons

They don't tell you that "TDD" stands for "Ticket-Driven Development". The whole company lives and dies by the trouble ticketing system, but generally the accepted software engineering best practices are ignored. Since there is such an amazing trouble ticket system and nothing gets done unless it's a ticket, managers force death marches to launch awful code that is debugged one high severity ticket at a time by whomever is on-call. The attrition rate speaks for itself.

2.0
Jun 13, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You get to work with fantastic people. The projects, in general are very interesting, and if you are lucky enough to work in PacMed building, you can bring your dog. Once you figure out the culture it can be very rewarding.

Cons

Top down, (all the way from JeffB) can be very useful (Everyone seems to have good ideas), but also limits the amount of ownership you can have in your work. No matter what you do, someone above is going to change it. Until you figure out the culture, it can be frustrating. The average tenure here seems to be very short relative to other places I have seen.

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