Amazon reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(209,120 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 209,120 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
2.0
Oct 16, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

The company has a very clear vision. If you are sufficiently extraverted and political, opportunities for advancement can be good.

Cons

The environment is very political. Although one of the company core competencies is "not optimizing for optics", the company is infested with brutal politics and appearances are more important than actual performance. This is partly a result of the darwinian management style (10% of employees are managed out every year as part of the performance process, and can end up getting the message throughout the year that they did a good job, and suddenly they are being managed out) Communication, both between groups and up and down the management chain is terrible. The company is incredibly secretive. Pressure to work long hours in this environment is incredible.

3.0
Oct 15, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It is the place to be for e-commerce. You won't get this kind of experience anywhere else. For someone with little experience, its a great place to get a lot of responsibility quickly.

Cons

The company hates to promote engineers. If you want to get promoted past SDE-II you're much better off becoming a manager. Some groups have bad support burdens and management doesn't seem to care. The environment itself is pure chaos. Goals and priorities change constantly.

4.0
Oct 11, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

There is no micromanaging on my team, and I'm free to make whatever corrections I deem are necessary. If I see a problem and decide it needs fixing there is nothing in my way, and I enjoy this freedom.

Cons

On-call duty can be painful at times. Essentially house arrest for a week at a time once every two months can be frustrating. This can vary greatly from team to team, however my team is particularly bad.

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