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      3.5

      60% would recommend to a friend

      (209,004 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 209,004 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 13, 2008

      Amazon opportunities vs. poor follow through

      Area manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Career opportunites and advancement are available for those who are willing to work hard

      Cons

      lack of focus on improvement initiatives. new projects are started while leaving numerous existing projects half completed.

      4.0
      Jun 13, 2008

      Satisfied SDEII says you'll learn alot, some of it will be applicable elsewhere.

      Software development engineer ii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Amazon has a lot of interesting projects going on at any given time. You will likely be dealing with projects that have a scale that few other companies can compete with. This will well prepare you for your next job. If you're interested in a project that you are not working on you can still access the code and explore the development environments. This helps when starting a new project so that you can see how others have done things before. Amazon tries to hire smart people, this means that you will likely be surrounded by people that will be able to teach you something.

      Cons

      The biggest downside is also one of the upsides. There are so many projects being actively developed at one time that often the wheel is re-invented many times. This can makes it difficult to decide the right way to do something. There are also a ton of proprietary tools. The build system is very complex and some would say overkill for java development. That's understandable considering it was built for complex C++ linking and library managment. The deployment tool is very robust, and thus hard to understand resulting in a large learning curve for even the more senior developers. Hopefully someone on your team knows how to work the thing!

      4.0
      Jun 13, 2008

      Great place to work as long as you like to work hard

      Senior business manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Very litle politics. If I do a good job, I get recognized. Things happen very quickly here - there is little red tape/beauracracy and people tell each other the truth.

      Cons

      We work really hard. "We can't do that" is not a good answer - we are constantly pushing to solve the impossible problems faster. These are all good things, but they add up to a lot of work and I wouldn't recommend it to people who aren't used to working in a fast paced environment.

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