Amazon reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(209,019 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 209,019 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
4.0
Jun 24, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Amazon attracts very bright engineers who are motivated to solve large and complex problems. The culture encourages creative and diverse solutions and promotes knowledge sharing through brown bags and tech talks. Amazon has created a robust technical community within the company.

Cons

Amazon can be a very dynamic environment that some might consider chaotic which is a tough environment for technical program managers. TPMs often work with 6-10 other teams, all of which claim to have limited resources. Also, since Amazon hires very smart individuals, it seems that in meetings, everyone thinks he/she is the smart person in the room. This can lead to contentious debates and more chaos.

3.0
Jun 24, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

the initial salary, signing bonus, and the stock is not bad. the people are generally pretty smart, projects are of interesting complexity.

Cons

no substantial salary increases after you are hired.

1.0
Jun 24, 2008

Welcome to the Matrix

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

In the old days (1995-2002), the people who worked here were incredibly smart, talented, interesting, versatile. I have never worked with a smarter group. Ever. It was like being in an elite college--that level of intelligence, but in a work environment. Very fun and stimulating.

Cons

Treat employees like disposable batteries. They will use you up and find fresh batteries to replace you.

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