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      3.5

      60% would recommend to a friend

      (208,993 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 208,993 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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      Reviews by job title

      209K reviews
      5.0
      Jun 11, 2008

      Great place to learn, schedule is a strain.

      Software development engineer ii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Learn the workings of a large distributed system and huge world-class website; learn technologies and software development ideas from coworkers. Good money.

      Cons

      The on-call load and pager duty is onerous for Software Engineers maintaining servers. Promotions are rare. There are many non-technical managers leading technical teams. Frequent re-orgs are confusing and disruptive. Java-obsession in some parts.

      2.0
      Jun 11, 2008

      Replacing you is cheaper than paying you more

      Independent software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      You get to 'own' what you work on - no one will come rescue you. So you'd better be on top of things

      Cons

      Chaotic, last-minute changes, endless bickering over details, extreme lack of long-term vision planning and communication, little understanding at upper levels of efficient ways to work better, management requires working demos (requiring enormous amounts of throwaway work), management forgets previous decisions at every design review meeting, extremely poor benefits package (they're just cheap!), offices and furniture are often shabby and worn, reviews are simply random facts, managers are not accountable for bad decisions, bad people skills get you ahead, "good" managers are those that avoid work and foist off their responsibilities to others, hard work is *not* rewarded or even recommended, but endless meetings about what should be done are the way to succeed.

      5.0
      Jun 11, 2008

      Amazon and Innovation

      Manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Amazon has a strong bias for innovation and out-of-the-box thinking, and tends to ignore title/position -- anyone can invent. They have a "Just Do It" award that is given to people every quarter for stepping outside of their job and creating an innovative solution to a problem, which exemplifies this bias. Amazon has a strong commitment to these innovative ideas, and doesn't have the "sink or swim in 9 months" mindset that many other companies have. Amazon sticks to an idea to see it through. Amazon offers a reasonably balanced work environment, and expects you to have a family and friends outside of work. You work hard, but you can also have a life outside of work.

      Cons

      If you're looking for just 40 hours a week, Amazon is the wrong place. Realistic hours for a technical position are 50+ per week. Q4 is a special time of year, so if you like taking the month of December off work, Amazon isn't somewhere you should look.

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