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      3.5

      60% would recommend to a friend

      (209,257 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 209,257 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 17, 2008

      Challenging environment with great rewards!

      Senior engineering manager
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      Pros

      An extremely fast moving environment where you are empowered to conceive of and champion your own ideas to fruition (as long as they are based on core values like customer-focus). This autonomy can allow one to accomplish a lot and advance.

      Cons

      Can be a little too demanding sometimes and one has to be careful about balancing work and life.

      4.0
      Jun 17, 2008

      Great place to gain experience, cash in on it when you leave.

      Senior business development manager
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      Pros

      You are a part of a company on the cutting edge of ecommerce technology. When working with other companies you have a considerable degree of clout given Amazon's place in the marketplace. Great focus on the customer experience as well as amazing efficiencies on the operations side.

      Cons

      Given it's size and success, Amazon has a difficult time "playing well with others." They commonly engage in bullying and stonewalling their partners and this makes it difficult to build long term positive relationships.

      2.0
      Jun 17, 2008

      Great place to learn, but you will quickly burn-out.

      Technical program manager
      Recommend
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      Business Outlook

      Pros

      You have a lot of ownership over your work. There is a lot of freedom to set your own goal and exercise best judgments. There usually is not a lot of micromanaging going on at the company. You are usually given a general goal or a vague set of problems, and you are expected to exercise best judgment to resolve and/or achieve them. Additionally, there are a lot of smart people at Amazon, and there are some great technologists here to learn from as well. Amazon is basically like a 10+ years-old and multi-billion dollar start-up, with all the good and bad that implies.

      Cons

      It's a very competitive and chaotic environment to work. You never know what's going to happen tomorrow, and the ownership of your work often implies very long working hours. There is also a severe lack of process or usage of industry best practices. The company culture also encourages hackers to slap things together to meet short-term objectives without taking into consideration of long-term impacts. Some groups also falls into a dark spiral, where the service the team owns are buggy, thus requiring high operational burden, i.e. being paged at 3am when something is down, which burns engineers out, which leads to even higher operational burden. It's a vicious cycle.

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