Does Amazon pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Amazon employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.7 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Amazon. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Amazon?

60% of Amazon employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Amazon 3.1 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.2 for culture and values and 3.5 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Amazon?

Warehouse Associate (11081) , Warehouse Worker (6892) , Associate (6192) , Software Engineer (6093) , Area Manager (5648) , Software Development Engineer (SDE) (3487) , Fulfillment Associate (3401) , Software Development Engineer (3157) , Customer Service Representative (3037) , Program Manager (2461) , Operations Manager (2279) , Customer Service Associate (2210) , Sortation Associate (1857) , Manager (1451) , Process Assistant (1418)

What are the pros of working at Amazon according to real employee reviews?

"Pay is good but not worth the asks made from IT and how they are treated" ((in 19134 reviews)); "good benefits you have to get good benefits because everything else at amazon is terrible!!" ((in 13126 reviews)); "A lot of information that is useful and great people to go to when you need something" ((in 7794 reviews)); "It was a WFH 3 months contract role.This role has good salary and perks.It was not so stressfull." ((in 5778 reviews)); "The work culture is good and I never felt that I was new in the company" ((in 4815 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Amazon according to real employee reviews?

"You do work bloody hard and very long hours so there is no work life balance" ((in 10030 reviews)); "You work long hours and not as many breaks as you would like or need at times" ((in 7088 reviews)); "Bad management always yelling at employees the turn around ratio of hiring and letting people go is really awful." ((in 6646 reviews)); "There are also bad managers that are rude and do not care about the feelings of their associates." ((in 5157 reviews)); "The company advertises peak season as the long hours and hard push but it really happens routinely throughout the year." ((in 2398 reviews))

What are employees saying about Amazon layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Amazon layoffs and their outlook for job security at Amazon in 2026.

Amazon reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(209,004 total reviews)

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 209,004 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

May 30, 2008

Amazon a hard working and performance based rewards company

Senior financial analyst

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Amazon is an excellent place to work if you are driven and enjoy a fast paced and rewarding career with excellent upside potential. I like it how performance is rewarded with increased responsibiliites and stock based awards. The company is truely customer centric and is continuing to strive toward a better customer experience in all aspects.

Cons

It has very long hours and sometimes difficult to have a good worklife balance. Goals are very aggressive and there are expectations of weekend work.

4.0

May 25, 2008

I can't believe I get paid to do what I love!

Senior marketing manager

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Amazon.com has endless opportunities, not only for career advancement but for breadth of opportunities. In fact, they have a new shoe and handbag store called endless.com, check it out. Not to mention, amazonfresh.com (grocery delivery), smallparts.com (hardware store for R&D), web services for enterprise clients (target.com, sears.ca, etc.) and just about everything else on amazon.com.

Cons

It's tough to stay focused on one career path with so many different competing opportunities.

3.0

May 23, 2008

About what you'd expect when you sell your soul. You get a good price for it though.

Software design engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Money, Money, Money, Money, Money

Cons

Working conditions (small cubes), tools available (one-size-fits-all computers don't really fit all sizes), competence of project managers (disorganized, no formal requirements setting), the need to maintain your own systems (nighttime and weekend calls/pages), lack of testers, lack of support staff. Basically, engineers are highly skilled web developers and system administrators. The compensation scheme also doesn't put much emphasis on performance, so the compensation is pretty similar if you did a good job or a bad. And people who are jerks, who don't get along with anyone and disrupt teams, aren't handled. They stick around forever.

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