Amazon reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(209,037 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 209,037 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
5.0
Feb 13, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

This is the best place in the industry if you want to learn new things and want to explore various areas. 1. Technical learning. 2. Co-workers and interaction with them is just awesome. 3. Pace of change is good enough to force you learn new things with the same pace. 4. Compensation is cool. 5. No politics like many other big companies.

Cons

1. Work life balance gets disturbed sometimes for some people, but that too is not as much as it is hyped on Glassdoor. Just join and see. 2. On-call: Each employee gets a turn, as per which he has to respond to any critical issue within a specific time interval. Indirectly, you have to be conscious 24X7 during this time. But its not same for all the teams and teams having very critical operations get help from their US counterpart (so you need to handle it during day only).

4.0
Feb 6, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Challenging, very intelligent people, great product, new innovations, plenty of opportunity to move around the company and find a match for your skills & interests.

Cons

It's never enough... Never enough time to do the work Never enough work done to satisfy management. Ultimately, frustrating for people who are high-achieving (which is everyone here at Amazon).

5.0
Jan 28, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Rapid professional growth if you are upto some hard work. - Development of business accumen as a side benefit - Good senior leadership

Cons

- Young dev team - they need a lot of mentoring - Above average attrition to Seattle - High work load

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