Amazon reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(209,034 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 209,034 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
3.0
Jun 10, 2008
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.

2.0
Jun 10, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

getting to work on massive scale; seeing how the whole process works; there really is a lot of ownership given to smart developers and teams, with mostly fairly little oversight. You are surrounded by smart and passionate engineers, for the most part, who have choices and want to be there.

Cons

no concern whatsoever for work v. personal life, with the examples starting from the VP level on down; developers spend much more time supporting legacy systems than writing new code; pager duty is unpredictable and can be nightmarish, inducing Stockholm Syndrome; more politics every year that make the place genuinely not fun to put your head down and do good work.

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