Amazon reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(209,290 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 209,290 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 Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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209K reviews
2.0
Sep 16, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-small teams - pizza teams -stocks and pay is good -smart peoples (though a lot of them are primadonna)

Cons

-lack of work/life balance - you are expected to work crazy hours and meet arbitrary deadlines set by the management -management lacks respect for the engineers - often they yell at employees -management promotes engineers who are loud and obnoxious -operation support - you have to carry pager 24 hours that sucks the life out of you -lack of tools/support - extremely bad tools support for build, deploy, IDE -poor computer hardware - you have 5 years old machine -dirty bathrooms and carpet - Amazon is known for being cheap and it saves every penny even on cleaning the bathrooms.

5.0
Sep 15, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The work is very interesting and challenging. My colleagues are very nice and helpful. The working location is also good.

Cons

You need to work very hard in the team. Sometimes you need to work during weekends. So, if you want an easy life, it is not a good choice.

2.0
Sep 8, 2010

A hard place to work

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Smart colleagues Good projects Constant new product flow

Cons

Some managers have NO emotional intelligence. If you get one of these, start looking for a new job.

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