Amazon reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(209,186 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 209,186 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
Feb 21, 2012

Great place to work.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Surrounded by smart people, new challenges every day, and given an opportunity to really influence the business. Rapid growth means tons of opportunities to grow.

Cons

Work / life balance is a real challenge and for a company this large, it's not always the most organized place.

4.0
Feb 14, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There are many things to work on in Amazon - there are few problems that are well solved and do not require further innovation. This can be a huge benefit when you come in to Amazon, there will definitely be something to which you can apply yourself.

Cons

A negative is that often you are dealing with all of the daily work and don't have the chance to make framework improvements or large-scale changes to the software you are working on. Too often stuck with finer details and management may not make time for the larger changes.

5.0
Feb 13, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

This is the best place in the industry if you want to learn new things and want to explore various areas. 1. Technical learning. 2. Co-workers and interaction with them is just awesome. 3. Pace of change is good enough to force you learn new things with the same pace. 4. Compensation is cool. 5. No politics like many other big companies.

Cons

1. Work life balance gets disturbed sometimes for some people, but that too is not as much as it is hyped on Glassdoor. Just join and see. 2. On-call: Each employee gets a turn, as per which he has to respond to any critical issue within a specific time interval. Indirectly, you have to be conscious 24X7 during this time. But its not same for all the teams and teams having very critical operations get help from their US counterpart (so you need to handle it during day only).

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