Amazon reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(209,608 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 209,608 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 Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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4.0
Aug 6, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Working with the smartest and brightest people in the industry

Cons

Very little to no career growth for User Experience discipline

1.0
Aug 5, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Salary,they give a little bit more than the average because they know that otherwise people wouldn't waste their time and go elsewhere.

Cons

Unfair assessment of work - they send out questionnaires asking people if their question was answered successfully. If someone puts 'no' as an answer they always hold it against you even if you did provide a correct and professional answer. A lot of people abuses those polls which is ignored by the management and they brush people of for 'making excuses'. You are basically getting abused for doing your job because all their management is interesting in are percentages,not an actual quality of your work. Too much workload and unrealistic targets - they treat you like you are a machine,not a human. Your every movement is monitored and measured. When you don't meet the targets nobody is interested in the fact that you might be dealing with a difficult issue of a customer which requires more time. Lack of opportunities to advance professionally - because the company offers high rewards for recommending a new member of staff the managers keep new positions on offer to themselves and do not let the internal employees to apply. So, your managers are people with a lot less experience than you who thus cannot help you at all if you have a problem. All they do is bully you with targets.

3.0
Aug 5, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

their architecture internal eco system some of the best minds are working around you visionary management

Cons

you will not know how much you lose until you come out. Amazon has the ability to suck you until dry - and make you enjoy it at the same time. there are lot of pros as listed , but you will never know when you are going to be the scape goat for some silly thing like a server peaking its CPU. Oncall rotation is another thing that can feed on your life as a dementor. but beware - you will not notice any of this unless you come out - or they send you out .

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