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      3.5

      60% would recommend to a friend

      (209,109 total reviews)
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      Andrew Jassy

      50% approve of CEO

      57% positive business outlook

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      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 209,109 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 28, 2009

      Come here to work hard, have no social life, get treated unfaily by management BUT have a bigger bank balance

      Software development engineer ii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The compensation package, provided you negotiate it at time of getting hired. Opportunity to work with the best e-commerce platform out there, and you will learn a LOT. Great name to have in resume

      Cons

      The hours are brutal with little regard to work-life balance, especially if the team consist mainly of unmarried engineers. Over emphasis on agile development methodologies. QA and operational (aka midnight pager beeping) burden on developers. Management not interested in career growth and is short sighted as to only being concerned about developers finishing that month's work. Lack of morale and mutual disrespect between team members. Definitely not a long term workplace for the non-workaholic

      3.0
      Feb 22, 2009

      Amazon - a mixed bag

      Technical program manager iii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Some of the people I've had the pleasure of working with have been nice and very bright. It's really been a pleasure to work with them. Having a world class internet retailer on your resume if you are interested in the industry helps to get you noticed. Amazon has been incredibly successful (we even had a good Q4 despite the economic issues plaguing other companies) so if you do work here you can learn how it happened. You can also see first hand how what works when your small can create a lot of internal turmoil when you get big if it doesn't change.

      Cons

      Launching products is considered more important than ensuring that code is robust and documenting how things work. Despite Amazon's large size it doesn't have a lot of well developed work processes & groups often have different goals & missions. This makes getting things done for a project challenging since a team that needs to do work for your project might not think it's important and might not be able to accommodate your needs. It's a pretty competitive and political environment. There are people who will take credit for your work (since they are looking for their next promotion) so make sure your keep your manager informed of what you are working on. Most teams don't get it right the first time so make sure you get everything tested.

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