Amazon reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(209,096 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 209,096 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
3.0
Jul 22, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Very bright people. I have never been bored. You can see the results of your work quickly. Innovation is encouraged. Developers have the opportunity to use new technologies. The private book signings with authors that are offered to employees are great.

Cons

There is too much work for too few people. On-call is onerous. Whether you have a good job is determined by whether you are lucky enough to have a good boss. The management is young, and can lack experience. The operational burden that falls on software development engineers can be very distracting. While there is work on improving tools, the spin up for using proprietary tools can be difficult.

3.0
Jul 21, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Good name and good experience. You get to work with a good number of smart, driven individuals.

Cons

Working long hours, especially during peak season. Little upward mobility. There was a perception that senior management had a three year and out perspective. In other words, talented people would come on, work hard for three years, and then be expected to move up or out. Turnover was extremely high within operations, and there needed to be a focus on creating a sustainable workforce. This high turnover created undo variance and troubles within the processes and for managers.

4.0
Jul 20, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Amazon is a very innovative company with never a dull moment at work. Management greatly encourages new ideas/technology, given that you can get some free time off your operational load (see below). The company has some of the smartest people around and provides awesome learning and career growth opportunities. If you ever wonder what does it take to keep a large scale distributed system working where the customer never even realizes the machinery behind amazon.com, you need to come work at Amazon. Great place to work at, learn some new stuff and have fun while doing it. Amazon totally rocks!

Cons

Operational load messes up your regular development work. Be prepared to live with chaos.

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