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      3.5

      60% would recommend to a friend

      (209,217 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 209,217 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
      4.0
      Jul 15, 2009

      great engineers, lots of ownership and control over projects, but constantly shifting upper management priorities

      Technical program manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - The engineers here are the best I've ever worked with - Typically you have near complete ownership over projects you work on - People trust you to get your job done, and excessive oversight and micromanagement are rare

      Cons

      - Upper management changes frequently, and so do the priorities - Our equipment (laptops, monitors, etc) suck, and are frequently on a self-support model - There's a lot of different stuff going on around in the company and not very good communication, which leads to a lot of duplicated effort (more than should happen)

      1.0
      Jul 14, 2009

      Good if you have the personality for it

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Profitable company. Things move fast. You can see your code changes in production in no time. Looks good on resume. Cubes have a nice view if you get a lucky seat. Some, not all, of the technology is cool.

      Cons

      Obsessively driven co-workers with no lives. You will be expected to work 45-50 hrs a week just to keep up. October to Dec 25 is treated as crunch time because of the holidays. Mandatory Oncall from 1 of every 4 weeks to 1 of every 8 if you are lucky. Developers are 30% tech support for their service, 40% business analyst and 30% developer. You will spend far more time learning the intricacies of shipping boxes through UPS than working on "cool" things and you will be expected to feel passionately about those boxes. Standard "lean" process speeches from senior management over and over. Priorities change at the last minute. Chaotic undirected environment with everyone competing for air time. You have to learn a thousand buggy in-house made tools You will be a cog in the machine. Squeak and you will be replaced by a new college grad. There is a reason nearly everyone there is under 30, think about it.

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