Amazon reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(209,290 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 209,290 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
Aug 22, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great exercise, and good extra money at holidays.

Cons

Don't expect to make a career out of it.

1.0
Aug 22, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

10% employee discount on first $1000 dollars spent.

Cons

Don't know where to begin. Let's see: Insecure and incompetent manager, focused on his own survival-get rid of anyone who might make him look less experienced or anyone who challenged his way. Manager took others work and used it as his own Slow and painful build experience Middle & upper management, a bunch of "yes men". Oddly enough, no women in upper management...hmm...Really? No one very passionate about what they are doing - people in in the group were either unhappy or pissed off, but not passionate.

5.0
Aug 19, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Amazon.com is a great company to work for. Features are always designed with the customer in mind. Customer trust/loyalty is high. Very short release cycles (less than one month), means that your work has an immediate impact. Many managers were SDEs at some point, so they have reasonable expectations. Easy to switch to different teams working on completely different technologies (must remain with a team for at least a year, but free to move afterwards). Opportunities to move from SDE to management.

Cons

Pager rotation - Building a large scale web service with tons of customers, means that any bugs encountered needs to be fixed immediately by the responsible team. Quick release cycles exacerbate this. Rotations are typically split evenly across the SDEs of a team.

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