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      3.5

      60% would recommend to a friend

      (209,019 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 209,019 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
      May 2, 2008

      A fair website, but sucks as a place to work

      Technical writer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      You own your own work

      Cons

      Highly politicized. People are literally not important. Career development is a joke. There is only one upgrade path. Failure in anything means a halt to upward movement. (I've seen great people stopped because of a relatively trivial error.) Compensation is truly horrendous, and benefits are Scrooge-like. Developers are a commodity, and work 80h weeks with oncall duty performing system maintenance. This is the most seat-of-the-pants and blame-the-victim company I've ever worked for. Hard work is not rewarded, because it's usually throwaway work. Long-term planning is a joke.

      2.0
      Apr 23, 2008

      Long hours and low pay.

      Systems administrator
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      If you take advantage of the discounts, you can save a good bit of money. You definitely get recognised for doing good work and you can quickly earn respect throughout the company if you earn it. Comp time is easy to arrange if you have a decent manager.

      Cons

      60-80 hour work weeks are not uncommon during crunch times. You can usually take off a good chunk once the flames die down but Amazon would work you 24 hours a day if they could. Overall, IT staff are stretched thin and severely underpaid for what they are expected to accomplish.

      2.0
      Apr 22, 2008

      Amazon isn't all it's cracked up to be, unless you're an engineer you probably won't be happy

      Sales director
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      It looks good on a resume. The visibility of the company may allow you to catch the eye of recruiters in the future.

      Cons

      The management is arrogant and unprofessional, the seem unqualified. There is such a strong emphasis put on the engineering side of the business, and none on the biz dev side. They do not understand what a sales person needs to be successful, if you are interviewing for a "sales" what they really want is a telemarketer.

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