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      3.5

      60% would recommend to a friend

      (209,474 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 209,474 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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      209K reviews
      1.0
      Aug 27, 2011

      Very discourgaging, miserable, unachievable rate expectations

      Picker, packer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Amazon is a huge growing company with excellent benefits, so the chances of a lay-off due to lack of business won't happen.

      Cons

      We are treated like machines set up to meet impossible rates per hour. Mandatory overtime working 50 to 60 hours a week and it's not even peek season yet. It often reaches 110 degrees in the warehouse. 15 minute breaks are taken up walking across the building to get to the breakroom or outside.

      1.0
      Aug 27, 2011

      Give Give Give, Take Take Take - Completely unrealistic quality expectations - give give give take...

      Quality assurance manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great Quality Aspirations Team Effort to Quality Outcome Excellent Design Standards Intense get it done environment

      Cons

      Sr. Mng - Utterly unrealistic quality expectations - no time, only mistakes matter and cost dearly Amazon doesn't have QA in many groups or they are woefully under staffed No Sr QA Mng clout or support (Director/VP)- notice there are zero QA Manger reviews on Amazon No refined QA Standards/processes across the board - did I say zero YES Double edge review process - don't rock the boat just be loved by all Frugality - means QA wont have resources to be successful - just live with it (die with it) Software Security Team - PARANOID no open source software tools - who cares about success

      1.0
      Aug 26, 2011

      Burn-out Mill

      Software development engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Salary. They pay you piles and piles of money and stock, although a good portion of the money is in the form of a bonus that you owe back (prorated) if you leave _for any reason_ during the first year, and a similar scheme for year two.

      Cons

      This is a place that has no respect for it's employees or any life they may have outside of work. Within 2 weeks of starting, I was informed by my manager that I the other members of the team all worked nights and weekends, and that the same was expected of me. Things went downhill from there, until I was working 80-90 hours each week and burnt out on anything else. Amazon fires a good percentage of its workforce each year, and only gives raises to the top 20%, which produces a culture of extreme fear and competition, with team members sabotaging each other, and plenty of inter- and intra-team politics.

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