Amazon reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(209,290 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 209,290 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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3.0
Jul 29, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Home office, no commute, paid full-time training.

Cons

Barely above minimum-wage pay, and the company also seems to value negative behavioral reinforcement towards employees (rather than positive), cynicism, and self-serving ideals. They are very much for-profit rather than people driven, despite their "treat the customer like a friend," customer-centric processes. There was a lot of behind-the-scenes customer bashing by the management that was disturbing to me at the forefront. In training, frequent loss-of-job threats involving late completion of training materials were sent out globally, regardless if they were applicable or not. The training process itself was based on a "survival of the fittest" premise , and there was little mercy for the fallen.

2.0
Jun 3, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Relatively good software development practices

Cons

Toronto office is a second-class citizen in Amazon world. The salary is lower than in Seattle and the work is less interesting. Working in a remote office means spending half of the day writing e-mails. You can get into a team in which you almost don't get to code and spend a lot of time with administration and maintenance. Amazon's frugality is sometimes ridiculous - you get the cheapest monitors, keyboards, etc, regardless of poor quality.

1.0
Jul 8, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Intellectually stimulating work, smart people, innovative environment

Cons

terrible work life balance, low pay, no learning & development opportunities, under-resourced, very low team morale based on people being overworked and constantly tired, lack of recognition. The company is growing at a tremendous rate but they do not hire enough new people to cope with the ever-increasing workload. Instead existing employees are pushed to the limit. Many staff are off frequently with headaches or other stress-related conditions.

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