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      3.5

      60% would recommend to a friend

      (209,629 total reviews)
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      Andrew Jassy

      50% approve of CEO

      57% positive business outlook

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      Amazon has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 209,629 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
      4.0
      Jul 8, 2012

      Life in Amazon India

      Anonymous employee
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      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      a. Great work environment b. High quality individuals working in different teams c. Young crowd creating a great vibrant and competitive environment d. Daily its a new learning e. Every team is independent with India center emerging as one of the technology driving centers of Amazon outside Seattle

      Cons

      a. Hiring bar usually does not match the kind of work people are actually doing b. Too many small distributed teams

      5.0
      Jul 7, 2012

      Great Company to work for

      Vendor manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Very challenging, they constantly push you to do you best.

      Cons

      Tendency to overwork their employees, employee retention is not very high.

      3.0
      Jul 7, 2012

      Growing pains of a company becoming huge.

      Software engineer ii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good comradely among the engineers. Very customer focused. You can pretty much kill any bad idea with "customers will hate it" argument. Agile program management means you'll keep up with what your team members are doing on a daily basis. Nearly everything is client/service architecture. Which if your team does it well, allows your to do whatever is best for your solution to your problem area without having huge migration issues with your clients. Generally managers are too busy to have those useless weekly meetings. (If you have daily ones why have a regular weekly one? You can always schedule a topic meeting to go over design issues etc.) Good and getting better support for bicycling to work. (bike cages, showers, lockers, and towels) Discount on buying stuff on their website.

      Cons

      On call. Nearly every engineering team has an on call rotation, so count the number of members and divide the number of days in a year by that number and that's the number of days you'll be on "house arrest" Because a page must be answered within 20 minutes any time day or night when you are on call. There seem to be more frameworks than teams. Everyone wants one and they tend to get imposed on your project in order to interface to some other needed service. Then the company drops support for it and you'll have to migrate your service. Difficult to do volunteer coding, ie help with your favorite freeware system, as you need approval from legal. It's not impossible but it's not straightforward either. Annual reviews tend to emphasis the negative vs the positive, that is you have peer feedback but your manager can pick and choose among the comments to either promote you or squash you. Very little opportunity to complain about it via HR.

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