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      3.5

      60% would recommend to a friend

      (209,006 total reviews)
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      Andrew Jassy

      50% approve of CEO

      57% positive business outlook

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      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 209,006 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 11, 2008

      Rating for the Employee Experience: Improvement Needed

      human resources specialist ii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      The name: working for Amazon is instantly recognizable. Amazon does amazing things for it's customers. You will definately get challenged.

      Cons

      There is no employee support. Areas of the business are segregated and managed according to the personalities of the leaders for that area. Compensation is targeted differently for different groups and employees are expendable. Employee investment is minimal. Benefits suck for the price. Pay mix is so stock heavy that, even at entry individual contributor levels, you are constantly watching a stock price you cannot affect in a meaningful way, waiting for your vest dates to make major purchases and pay property taxes. It does not contribute to a feeling of ownership, it must be what prison is like, marking the days.

      4.0
      Jun 11, 2008

      Can be a great place to work, depending on what team you're on.

      Software development engineer ii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Teams tend to be very small and they work fairly independently from each other, which helps keep things moving along quickly. Teams also own their business, which means individual members can have a large impact on what the team produces and how their business grows. Most of the people you work with are very smart and produce quality work. Amazon's business and scale provides has a huge variety of problems to solve (it ranges from building cool web applications, to optimizing order fulfillment and shipping, to personalization, to web services). If you are unhappy with your current team, odds are there is a team elsewhere in the company doing something you find interesting. Internal transfers are fairly easy and happen all the time.

      Cons

      The model of having many small independent teams has several downsides: - There is often duplication of effort because you can't convince a team you depend on to prioritize work you need, so you might end up doing it yourself. - Most teams do not have dedicated a support or operations team. This means SDEs are responsible for deployments, operational issues, selecting hardware, etc. Most SDEs are part of an on-call rotation.. when they are on-call they have to carry a pager and need to be able to respond to pages within 15min. The frequency and intensity of oncall varies greatly by team. - There is a huge variance in quality of life depending on what team you're on. If you work on a team that has a heavy ops burden or owns a lot of bad legacy code, you will probably hate it. In terms of culture, Amazon is a very frugal company. No extravagant benefits, fairly cheap office equipment, etc.

      3.0
      Jun 10, 2008

      Amazon.com and you're done.

      Technical account manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Being surrounded by talented and dedicated people. Seattle is a great place to live. The signing bonus wasn't bad and staying at the W hotel was nice. Can't wait til headquarters is moved to South Lake Union. It's just plain cool.

      Cons

      It's 24/7. You're always plugged in. The employee discount isn't all that. Tribal knowledge is rampant. Departments tend to work in silos. The food gets old after a while in the International District. Seattle winters are long and dark.

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