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      3.5

      60% would recommend to a friend

      (209,091 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 209,091 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
      Jul 8, 2008

      Great place to work and make history, but doesn't leave that much time for fun.

      Software development engineer ii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Fast paced dynamic environment. Smart co-workers. Strong sense of ownership in the decentralized model lends itself to designing and writing better software. Flexibility to explore alternate career paths.

      Cons

      - Benefits are poor. The 401k match is just 2%. Medical and dental plans are pretty ordinary. - Pager duty. Getting paged 40 times a week can be annoying. - Work/Life balance. I find myself working long hours more often than not.

      4.0
      Jul 8, 2008

      Still an exciting place to work (provided you are on the right team)

      Software development engineer ii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Amazon is still growing, and there are a lot of great teams to work on. If you pick the right team with the right manager, there's a lot of opportunity to work on fun things like AWS or Digital Services, and get recognized and rewarded for your achievements. Some of the other highlights include: weekly tech talks to educate engineers on what's going on in the industry or to talk about a cool new technology that a team is working with, "fishbowls" - where popular authors or artists come to talk about their latest books and albums and of course, all the benefits of working in downtown (or close to it) Seattle. The dreaded pager duty that many Amazonians complain about again depends on the team you work on. On a large team, you can foresee being on pager duty once every 6-8 weeks. If your software service is critical and has a penchant for going down, this can definitely be hell. For some teams, where the service is not critical (support for internal teams, for example) or not prone to outages, pager duty can be considered a mild inconvenience.

      Cons

      The benefits are OK, but not up to par with the other leading tech companies, like Google and Microsoft. Stock bonuses are great when the stock price is high, but if the stock market takes a dive, suddenly that 10k bonus you were looking forward to could be more like 5k through no fault of your own. Being a large company means there is a lot of information spread around the company (a lot of it wikified in the internal company wiki), but it also means it can be hard to find information when you need it. There also seems to be a growing trend towards attracting new hires with higher and higher salaries, while not maintaining a sufficient wage increase for current employees. This leads to new hires coming in with higher base salaries (excl. bonuses) than some of their teammates who have been there for two to three years!

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