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      3.5

      60% would recommend to a friend

      (209,107 total reviews)
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      Andrew Jassy

      50% approve of CEO

      57% positive business outlook

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      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 209,107 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
      3.0
      Jun 12, 2008

      Decent for a first job out of college, but don't stay too long.

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      You're given a lot of responsibility (depending on the team, of course), which is a good learning experience for someone fresh out of college. You get a 10% employee discount (okay, I'm running out of good things to say, and I need to get to 100 words-- seriously, if you are ambitious, there just aren't a lot of good reasons for you to stay at Amazon).

      Cons

      You are a cog in the machine. It's run by MBA-types who make stupid requests. Pager duty sucks. There systems are extremely fragile, and you will have to spend nights and weekends because of the incompetence of others. People clock out at 5pm. There is very little passion among the other developers.

      2.0
      Jun 11, 2008

      Working at Amazon is a crapshoot, it all depends on which team you join (most suck though!)

      Business intelligence engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good compensation package, millions of customers, some very interesting technologies especially in the area of distributed computing, some interesting talks, AWS teams seem to be the best organized with the highest level of morale

      Cons

      High-stress oncall rotations, dysfunctional engineering and project management, mediocre development environments with little testing, not invented here sydrome, lots of cowboy programmers, immature organizational structure

      5.0
      Jun 11, 2008

      Are they really paying me this much?

      software development engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Very flexible. If you are on the right team then the work is awesome too. The pay was incredible, even as an intern. Overall I love working for Amazon. In general I get to work on interesting problems and the experience I am getting here will transfer well to anywhere I choose to go. Cloud Computing FTW!

      Cons

      Oncall. Politics. Lack of postive action for known issues. Some issues with reviews, especially when someone I consider incompetent gets promoted and I don't, but that is probably just localized to my team (I hope).

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