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      3.5

      60% would recommend to a friend

      (209,784 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 209,784 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 Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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      210K reviews
      2.0
      Dec 25, 2012

      Lof of learning, great place for new college hires but management enforces hierarchical structure.

      Software engineer ii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Lot of learning opportunities. Very intelligent co-workers. The scale of problems are so big, only few companies have problems at such large scale.

      Cons

      Not a startup and they keep saying frugality drives innovation but we do not need to be frugal any more so generally we get away by adding a few hundred machines every time a scale issue comes up. Management forces SDE-II/SDE-III to be influential but that creates a bad work environment. Senior engineers have to force their decisions on junior engineers to meet their goals. Works well until you are SDE-I but as you become more experienced you would probably like to understand why trade-offs you are making in your design/development are worst then suggested by some other senior engineer.

      4.0
      Dec 24, 2012

      Amazon is a great company to start at.

      Software development engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      -Competitive offers (not the best, but still well above average) -Many of the teams have a similar feel to a start up -It is in Seattle (I have mixed feelings about this) -The people here are smart and motivated -Has a kind of "hands off" management style, at least where I work. The mentality is that as long as I get my work done appropriately, all is good. -You can go from team to team, department to department, and continuously learn new things. You can jump from low end server management to high end app development for example. -The company is going places both from a financial sense (have you looked at their stock recently and its trend?) and a technology sense -The teams are generally kept small and for my team at least, leads to better communication

      Cons

      -With some teams, work life balance is horrible. This is not all teams however, mostly the ones that manage the website directly and are responsible for keeping various services up and running. I have seen it both ways. -It is in Seattle (I have mixed feelings about this) -It can be difficult at times to get recognized for your hard work even if you go above and beyond the call of duty (please note I have not personally experiences this. Rather, it is a conclusion I have reached based off of my interactions with others and what I have seen) -Team culture and work life balance varies from "I want to get out of here" to "I absolutely love it here and can't imagine myself anywhere else" I understand that this happens in many different companies, but I wish Amazon would work more to normalize this spectrum.

      3.0
      Dec 23, 2012

      Software Engineer

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good pay, flexiable working hours, good management team

      Cons

      kinda boring work, not good career path

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