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      3.5

      60% would recommend to a friend

      (209,034 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 209,034 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
      2.0
      Jun 16, 2008

      Amazon = ok.

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Cool company that offers a great service. Good work/life balance. Good comp.

      Cons

      Very political. Many stupid and pointless internal initiatives in the company.

      2.0
      Jun 16, 2008

      Great place, lots of talent to work with and learn -- if you have NO personal life

      Project manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Cutting edge company. Prestige on one's resume Working with extremely talented people. exposure to leading edge technology and opportunity to understand same

      Cons

      no personal life, no rewards for long hours on salary (no overtime paid), rewards for good job far and few between, preferential treatment given to staff grown within amazon from earliest days (crony syndrome) regardless of talent, no cross training opportunities for growth within, knowledge is not freely shared, it is a commodity to hold native to group that one works with.

      3.0
      Jun 16, 2008

      Amazon.com: you will learn a lot, but you will probably end up hating your job.

      Software development engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      You learn a lot. You work in small teams where you are an owner of your software. This means that you own everything, from writing the code to testing it to deploying and managing your fleet of machines. Depending on which team you are on, you will end up working with some cool technologies. This includes Amazon Web services (S3, EC2, SQS). You will most likely end up writing large-scale distributed systems. Like I said before, you will learn a lot. Depending on the team, you will not have support engineers or QA people to help handle operational issues and testing. You have to do everything yourself. This is a good thing, in that it gets you into the startup mindset.

      Cons

      You have to carry a pager to support your software. This means that you will be woken up in the middle of the night when you are on-call. Everything moves at glacial speeds. Projects that should take 1 or 2 months take 6 months. The bureaucracy is stifling, depending on which team you end up with. Any sort of project that requires work from multiple teams ends up progressing very slowly. Depending on the team, management can be very reluctant to approve of any clean-up work to improve legacy codebases. Pushing a new idea through is very difficult. I have tried doing this myself, only to be turned down. I have heard of many other cases where it takes up to 2 years to push a good idea through all the levels of management.

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