Amazon reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(209,259 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 209,259 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
2.0
Jun 27, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Amazon's Engineering team moves fast. There are quite some dynamics in the team.

Cons

Very veritcalized company. Upper management make decisions without input from Engineers. Very management driven company.

2.0
Jun 26, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1. Some of the best minds in the world work with you. 2. You're given to work on cutting edge technology 3. Amazon.com has a huge internal software base, and many in-house frameworks are developed.

Cons

1. You have to support what you deliver, this includes a lot of operational tasks, which is a pain for SDE. 2. As you work on most of the in-house frameworks you dont generally get to use the industry standard frameworks. 3. Employees are just working machine for them, frugality is the main principle and that reflects in every coffee machine in amazon, leave alone goodies or office parties.

4.0
Jun 24, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

If you work hard they will reward you, the pay is very good for warehouse work and promotions are there if you work hard and play the politics right.

Cons

They tend to hire under-qualified ex military personnel into management. They also required a BA/BS degree but do not care what it is in. So you end up with people who went to college for physical fitness in a management position they should never of been allowed into.

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