Amazon reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(209,012 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 209,012 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
Jun 13, 2008
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Pros

Amazon has a lot of interesting projects going on at any given time. You will likely be dealing with projects that have a scale that few other companies can compete with. This will well prepare you for your next job. If you're interested in a project that you are not working on you can still access the code and explore the development environments. This helps when starting a new project so that you can see how others have done things before. Amazon tries to hire smart people, this means that you will likely be surrounded by people that will be able to teach you something.

Cons

The biggest downside is also one of the upsides. There are so many projects being actively developed at one time that often the wheel is re-invented many times. This can makes it difficult to decide the right way to do something. There are also a ton of proprietary tools. The build system is very complex and some would say overkill for java development. That's understandable considering it was built for complex C++ linking and library managment. The deployment tool is very robust, and thus hard to understand resulting in a large learning curve for even the more senior developers. Hopefully someone on your team knows how to work the thing!

4.0
Jun 13, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Very litle politics. If I do a good job, I get recognized. Things happen very quickly here - there is little red tape/beauracracy and people tell each other the truth.

Cons

We work really hard. "We can't do that" is not a good answer - we are constantly pushing to solve the impossible problems faster. These are all good things, but they add up to a lot of work and I wouldn't recommend it to people who aren't used to working in a fast paced environment.

2.0
Jun 12, 2008

SO WHAT'S UP WITH PERSONEL AT AMAZON

Anonymous employee
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Pros

WELL KNOWN, STARTUP COMPANY. A PRESTEGOUS IMAGE. EXCELLENT FOOD SERVICE. SEEM TO BE HIRING LOTS OF PEOPLE

Cons

SENIOR MANAGEMENT SEEMS TEMPRAMENTAL AND SOMEWHAT POMPUS. VERY QUICK TO POINT OUT MISTAKES AND TO THROW HISSY FITS WHEN MISTAKES ARE MADE. MANAGEMENT APPEARS TO FIRE PERSONEL QUICKLY AND HAS 20-100 PEOPLE REPORTING TO NEW EMPLOYEE ORIENTATION EACH WEEK. DOES THAT MEAN THAT 20-100 EMPLOYEES ARE FIRED EACH WEEK?

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