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      3.5

      60% would recommend to a friend

      (209,009 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 209,009 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 11, 2008

      Stimulating place to work -- helps to be thick-skinned

      Product manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      1) On-going flow of innovative ideas that provides a sense that you're working on the cutting edge. 2) Smart, capable and interesting colleagues.

      Cons

      Extremely high expectations. Brings about great effort but scant feelings of having done a job well.

      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.

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