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      3.5

      60% would recommend to a friend

      (209,474 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 209,474 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
      Feb 14, 2012

      Only way to progress is to play the politics and have an MBA

      Product manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Lots of smart people - Diverse business functions - Amazon brand

      Cons

      - Lack of recognition for good work - Political - Unrewarding - Managers with low level of understanding of the basic business process (top down) - Lack of team culture - can be very negative - People 'push back', and this can end up going in circles - Lots of ideas, without a good foundation to automate processes - Too much whispering - Frugality - Slough

      4.0
      Feb 13, 2012

      Play Hard and Work Even Harder

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great place to work, things are constantly moving and growing so your job is never the same as it was the day before. You are very much treated like an owner of the company meaning you are expected to take action on your own with little direction, they hire the best because they rely on you to be a self starter and figure things out while keeping what's best for the company in mind when making any and all decisions.

      Cons

      It is hard to advance in your position, you don't get a lot of feedback other than your once a year review, and work/life balance is not option unless you want to get left behind.

      5.0
      Feb 13, 2012

      Want to get best out of yourself? - Join Amazon.com. Awesome place to work, specially for freshers.

      Software development engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      This is the best place in the industry if you want to learn new things and want to explore various areas. 1. Technical learning. 2. Co-workers and interaction with them is just awesome. 3. Pace of change is good enough to force you learn new things with the same pace. 4. Compensation is cool. 5. No politics like many other big companies.

      Cons

      1. Work life balance gets disturbed sometimes for some people, but that too is not as much as it is hyped on Glassdoor. Just join and see. 2. On-call: Each employee gets a turn, as per which he has to respond to any critical issue within a specific time interval. Indirectly, you have to be conscious 24X7 during this time. But its not same for all the teams and teams having very critical operations get help from their US counterpart (so you need to handle it during day only).

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