Amazon reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(209,319 total reviews)
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Andrew Jassy

50% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

Amazon has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 209,319 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 29, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The learning curve is very steep. You learn a lot in your first few months as the company operates in a very different way from other retailers.

Cons

The amount of work one single person does is ridiculous. Also, there is no formal training. You learn everything by doing it yourself. You get no support from your manager. Basically, your manager is there just as a title who does your performance review at the end of the year, which by the way will come as a surprise because there is no feedback on your performance, even when you ask for it because the managers have no time to do it until the end of the year. The company culture is COLD. Your co-workers will not verbally interact with you even when you try. They are an awkward bunch. They only respond well to emails. Your "manager" has no previous training or experience in people management and will not take any interest in your professional development. In fact, if you are better looking than your manager, or dress better than your shabbily dressed manager (no dress code at amazon), your manager will probably dislike you. And I want to again emphasize that your manager will take NO interest in your professional development.

2.0
May 2, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You own your own work

Cons

Highly politicized. People are literally not important. Career development is a joke. There is only one upgrade path. Failure in anything means a halt to upward movement. (I've seen great people stopped because of a relatively trivial error.) Compensation is truly horrendous, and benefits are Scrooge-like. Developers are a commodity, and work 80h weeks with oncall duty performing system maintenance. This is the most seat-of-the-pants and blame-the-victim company I've ever worked for. Hard work is not rewarded, because it's usually throwaway work. Long-term planning is a joke.

5.0
Nov 19, 2020

Customer centric

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Customer centric, insists on highest standards, great peer group, variety of projects to gain great experience

Cons

Challenging projects, time management, deliverables, meetings, project timelines

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