Amazon reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(209,012 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 209,012 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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3.0
Jun 15, 2008
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Pros

Because Amazon is not focused on previous experience, it is easy to get hired right out of college. Amazon is an environment where you can easily grow and learn a lot.

Cons

Despite the above, Amazon has a VERY high turnover. This is due in large part to the fact that there is nowhere to advance to. It is virtually impossible to achieve meaningful advancement without leaving the company.

3.0
Jun 15, 2008
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Pros

You get to work on the cutting edge architectures - webservices, SOA, middleware. There's a 360 degree view to engineering where you can get involved with not only the end-to-end SDLC but from an enterprise architectural perspective as well e.g. capacity planning, load/performance testing, senior management reviews and presentations etc.

Cons

Operational support, operational support, operational support! The development center I was working at (Tempe, AZ) had a slave driver for a manager. He replaced very competent, intelligent and hard working people with suck-ups. Completely took the joy out of working for Amazon due to his micro-management and paranoia - his philosophy was to be a dictator and believed any one speaking out for anything meant that it was a bad reflection on him so he was hard on those who raised ANY concerns. The MAJOR issue with all of this was that senior management in Seattle was made aware of these issues on multiple times and NO action was taken ever. This eventually made a lot of us to leave.

3.0
Jun 15, 2008
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Pros

Freedom to challenge authority Creative Freedom Kickass team members

Cons

Transluscent management layer means that you are constantly guessing what management policies are or why they are the way they are. Promotions/Appraisals, though process driven, still have a large dose of subjectivity involved. Speaking of the Banaglore office, it's a great place to work if you are in the 0-7 years work experience zone. Anyone in mid-management should think twice because opportunities for growth within the center are extremely limited.

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