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      3.5

      60% would recommend to a friend

      (209,262 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 209,262 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
      1.0
      Aug 22, 2010

      Video On Demand, a horrible experience

      Senior technical
      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

      Great place to work with strong customer focus

      Software development engineer ii
      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.

      2.0
      Aug 17, 2010

      Cool technology, ambitious goals.

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Working with new technology on a scale you'll find in very few places. Very smart engineers working hard to do new things.

      Cons

      Employees seem to be viewed as consumables. Promotions given to those employees that are great at "managing up", or presenting the best picture to their manager, instead of what was actually accomplished. Mid-level management seemed to not be focused on their teams, but rather on getting promotions for themselves. Amazon is a big pond with lots of big fish, this can be a real shock to someone who has been a big fish in a small pond. Be prepared to work 50-60 hrs/week, or you're not pulling your weight.

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