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      3.5

      60% would recommend to a friend

      (209,259 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 209,259 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
      2.0
      Jun 16, 2008

      Stop burning out your employees

      Buyer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Company is profitable and health today.

      Cons

      No chance to have a life. Nights and weekends are not off limits. Run very lean and burn out their employees and just roll in new ones.

      3.0
      Jun 15, 2008

      Easy come easy go.

      Software development engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Because Amazon is not focused on previous experience, it is easy to get hired right out of college. Amazon is an environment where you can easily grow and learn a lot.

      Cons

      Despite the above, Amazon has a VERY high turnover. This is due in large part to the fact that there is nowhere to advance to. It is virtually impossible to achieve meaningful advancement without leaving the company.

      3.0
      Jun 15, 2008

      Great place to learn, awful managers.

      Software development engineer ii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      You get to work on the cutting edge architectures - webservices, SOA, middleware. There's a 360 degree view to engineering where you can get involved with not only the end-to-end SDLC but from an enterprise architectural perspective as well e.g. capacity planning, load/performance testing, senior management reviews and presentations etc.

      Cons

      Operational support, operational support, operational support! The development center I was working at (Tempe, AZ) had a slave driver for a manager. He replaced very competent, intelligent and hard working people with suck-ups. Completely took the joy out of working for Amazon due to his micro-management and paranoia - his philosophy was to be a dictator and believed any one speaking out for anything meant that it was a bad reflection on him so he was hard on those who raised ANY concerns. The MAJOR issue with all of this was that senior management in Seattle was made aware of these issues on multiple times and NO action was taken ever. This eventually made a lot of us to leave.

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