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      3.5

      60% would recommend to a friend

      (209,404 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 209,404 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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      209K reviews
      1.0
      Aug 27, 2011

      Give Give Give, Take Take Take - Completely unrealistic quality expectations - give give give take...

      Quality assurance manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Great Quality Aspirations Team Effort to Quality Outcome Excellent Design Standards Intense get it done environment

      Cons

      Sr. Mng - Utterly unrealistic quality expectations - no time, only mistakes matter and cost dearly Amazon doesn't have QA in many groups or they are woefully under staffed No Sr QA Mng clout or support (Director/VP)- notice there are zero QA Manger reviews on Amazon No refined QA Standards/processes across the board - did I say zero YES Double edge review process - don't rock the boat just be loved by all Frugality - means QA wont have resources to be successful - just live with it (die with it) Software Security Team - PARANOID no open source software tools - who cares about success

      1.0
      Aug 26, 2011

      Burn-out Mill

      Software development engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Salary. They pay you piles and piles of money and stock, although a good portion of the money is in the form of a bonus that you owe back (prorated) if you leave _for any reason_ during the first year, and a similar scheme for year two.

      Cons

      This is a place that has no respect for it's employees or any life they may have outside of work. Within 2 weeks of starting, I was informed by my manager that I the other members of the team all worked nights and weekends, and that the same was expected of me. Things went downhill from there, until I was working 80-90 hours each week and burnt out on anything else. Amazon fires a good percentage of its workforce each year, and only gives raises to the top 20%, which produces a culture of extreme fear and competition, with team members sabotaging each other, and plenty of inter- and intra-team politics.

      3.0
      Aug 24, 2011

      Tones of data, very complex SQL, a lot of KOL tasks, no training, lots of fire fighting

      Data engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Dealing with huge amount of e-commerce data Super scaling DW infrastructure Strong hands-on for end-to-end BI/DW practice Unique ELT framework

      Cons

      Throwing hardware upon problems Barely polished data model KOL and operational pressure is very high Poor medical insurance compared with Google, MS, Expedia in Seattle area High turn-over rate If stock price goes up, then you get less RSU next year because your previous RSU's value is too much

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