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      3.5

      60% would recommend to a friend

      (209,437 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 209,437 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
      4.0
      Aug 19, 2008

      It's fun if you make it fun

      Software development engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      1. Challenging problems (depending on which part you work on) 2. Fun environment 3. A lot of "not invented here" -- if you can play it right, you can build quite an engineering portfolio for yourself 4. If you are an adrenaline junkie -- you will enjoy the rush of having to fix a broken website in real-time. 5. Management seems to recognize some failures and is remedying them, slowly but surely.

      Cons

      1. Boring work (if you don't work in a good group) 2. Too much decentralization -- lots of inter-group bickering that wouldn't happen at other shops 3. Too much "not invented here"

      4.0
      Aug 10, 2008

      Exciting challenges in scale and availability to solve, but benefits could be better

      Software development manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Chance to work with great engineers, exposure to scaling, availability and reliability issues in software and systems, and great senior management who apparently know what they are doing. The stock units aren't bad either with the way the stock is doing lately.

      Cons

      Heavy oncall load in certain orgs/teams, few benefits compared to Google/Microsoft/Yahoo etc. Plus, too much emphasis on frugality to the extent of being cheap in too many issues.

      4.0
      Aug 8, 2008

      Driven Amazonians find time for fun; feedback can be lacking

      Associate buyer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      At Amazon, you are constantly interacting with very intelligent, driven people. Yet most Amazonians also know how to have fun, and it is not unusual to find teams gathering for lunches, after-work drinks, summer baseball games or other activities. The team I am on is a large team but a very open team. Although most of us sat in cubes, the "open-door policy" was always practiced, even with the management who had the walled offices. Communication between levels is expected, regardless of what level the comment is coming from and what level it is going to.

      Cons

      As with most companies, Amazon performs annual reviews of its employees. Throughout the year, feedback can be lacking. Some teams are very diligent about providing frequent feedback about team members; other teams are not. Depending on position, the salary can be less than, equal to or above the average for Seattle.

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