Amazon reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(209,383 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 209,383 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
Sep 6, 2019
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Pros

The salary is pretty high, all-in-all I was at about 160k/year. Still not worth it.

Cons

The culture is awful, if you're a software engineer I highly suggest you find another job as there are many more. I worked in downtown Seattle for an AWS team, and everyone in the building I worked in seemed perpetually depressed. Hours were long (some team members worked 30+ hours straight), and almost all employees were foreigners on H1B visas who were more-or-less forced to put up with the conditions or leave the country. In addition to this, the internal tooling is really old and outdated, leaving few opportunities to learn cutting edge technologies and the developer operations is an extremely mismanaged nightmare. I've never seen people crying at their desk like some claim to have seen, but nonetheless, this is obviously not a healthy place to work.

2.0
Jul 31, 2019
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Pros

Experience many different services and technologies.

Cons

Being forced to meet arbitrary goals that change often. No time to dive deep into a customers issue because we must take as many cases as possible. High Stress environment. Unreliable management. Rare career growth within Amazon. No leadership from Management.

5.0
Dec 26, 2018

Solutions Architect

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Pros

Great on-boarding process for new team members. Great learning opportunities (training, job shadow, certification paths). Everybody is very helpful and friendly. A strong and very capable team. Low administrative overhead with a lot of things being done lean. The Amazon Leadership Principles come up in pretty much everything we do and is something that serves as inspiration.

Cons

The drawback of being on a fast-growing team is that almost everybody in the team is new to Amazon. We compensate for this by having mentors elsewhere in the organization and by being resourceful in settling in.

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