Amazon reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(209,421 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 209,421 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
Sep 18, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Excellent pay and benefits - Very cool technology - Generally good managers (senior management is another story though) - Flexible hours on some/most teams - Most coworkers are friendly and helpful, with very few exceptions

Cons

- Incompetence on some teams (forgotten deadlines, lack of ownership etc) - Teams are encouraged to release prototypes as production software - Testing is extremely rare/sparse - Unreasonably high expectations come from upper management - Teams are too small to effectively handle their workloads, resulting in high tension and stunted productivity - Weak development hardware - Terrible internal software development tools (fighting with them every day!)

3.0
Sep 16, 2011

Good

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Amazon is a great customer centric place

Cons

The management is very top down, and no respect for employees

4.0
Sep 15, 2011

a good place to earn money

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

pay is good. flexible working hours. be respected when sharing my ideas. can learn a lot from the fast-growing company.

Cons

no good mechanism to guide a new employee. IT support is far from perfect. no free meals or even soda.

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