Amazon reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(209,037 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 209,037 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
1.0
Jun 11, 2008
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Pros

Some great people work for the company.

Cons

Sweatshop. Very poor employee morale. Most employees I know are very dissatisfied with their compensation, the poor raises (range = 0-3%, 5% is practically unheard of), high healthcare costs, and lack of career development opportunities (i.e. promotions are rare and there's no clear path to getting promoted ... most promotions require lots of political maneuvering). And the continuous change of focus, priorities and resources whenever the CEO comes up with a new idea (aka a "Jeff project" that will make your project no longer a priority) proves disheartening to everybody at some point in their Amazon career. This culture all comes directly from the CEO and nothing will change until he changes.

4.0
Jun 11, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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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
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.

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