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      3.5

      60% would recommend to a friend

      (209,190 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 209,190 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
      Dec 17, 2009

      Lots of personal micromanagement and hard work is essential to being successful at Amazon.com

      Fc associate i (warehousing)
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Generally great co-workers. Pretty good benefits. Area managers are usually understanding and are easy to talk to. Amazon.com is a pretty financially successful company to work for.

      Cons

      Brutal turnover rate for temp associates not used to working in an environment based primarily on production. There's a thin line to walk while working here. One small incident can mean full termination. Hard working employees who meet and generally well exceed the productivity/safety/quality expectations usually go un-noticed. Peak (Late November - December) hours can be excessively tiring after so many consecutive weeks.

      5.0
      Dec 14, 2009

      I love working here

      Senior technical program manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Working at Amazon for the last 4 years, it has been the best place I've worked so far. Engineers and management loves the customers. Pretty much any great idea can be taken to market - who would of thought a book selling company would be a world leader in cloud computing ? There is also lots of opportunity to move around the company provided that you have good relationship with your peers and direct manager. Last but not least, the CEO is really really smart and genuinely cares about his top performing employees. Whether he anticipated it or not, the hiring freeze BEFORE the recession hit was pure genius. One of the few companies with zero recession layoffs.

      Cons

      Biggest complaint is the spotty performance of managers, especially the bad apples. Bad apples are allowed to work their employees like a dog and fire them even if they are really good performers. If you get stuck with a bad manager, be nice and quietly change groups before they ruin your reputation. If you are not a top performer in reference to your peers, best not join the company because your pay is highly tied to how well you do in your performance reviews.

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