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      3.5

      60% would recommend to a friend

      (209,319 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 209,319 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
      Oct 27, 2008

      Great Experience (Amazon years = Dog years), Superb Colleagues, Plenty to Improve

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Scale -- Amazing opportunity to have exposure to large-scale ecommerce, website, infrastructure. Truly the most top-notch security folks I have seen anywhere. Solid Company -- I believe that Amazon has a good, solid core business and that Jeff truly does have vision. Amazing colleagues -- Some really smart, good people that I have loved to work with. Exceedingly competent software development overall. Vacation -- stay there long enough (7+ years) and you'll get a decent amount of vacation.

      Cons

      Compensation -- get the best comp package you can when you start, because you won't get much thereafter and everything will be based on that. If you luck out with a good manager that will fight for you, you may have a chance. Otherwise, the only way to get any decent raises is to get really well known and a lot of senior management to think on you favorably (without making any enemies) so that when your name comes up in a ratings review meeting. Reviews -- feedback/actual performance and compensation are unrelated. Promotions are fights requiring significant documentation and a boss that likes you and a boss that likes your boss. Management is generally very hit or miss -- a good manager can make all the difference in the world and a bad manager can be only mildly damaging at best. Employee recognition (especially for non-software developers) is nonexistent unless your particular manager cares about it. As with many larger companies, the individual group you are in makes a huge difference.

      3.0
      Oct 27, 2008

      Burnout is likely

      Software development engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The people you will be working with are amazingly clever. The "bar raising" approach they bring to interviews really has done a lot to keep the employee base competent. You will be building software used my hundreds of thousands of people.

      Cons

      My only real problem with Amazon was the massive time drain and how it ate into my personal life outside of "work hours"; 60-70 hour weeks were the norm. The team I was on owned a very high profile though and others didn't seem to have this problem. I suspect that this was a perfect storm of my own tendency toward working a lot, a manager that always wanted more, and the company culture -- maybe if you are a bit better at separating work and life or the team you're interviewing with is a bit more slack you won't have the same burn out I did. Just a note: I lived across the lake which meant an additional 1.5 hours each day on the bus. While it is more expensive in the city it's probably worth it in the end. After Amazon was done with me those hours on the bus were pretty valuable.

      5.0
      Oct 23, 2008

      Great company

      Software development engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good compensation package, no state tax in Washington. Competitive with Google and Microsoft. A lot of exciting teams to work on, which was surprising, especially to those that view Amazon as a "bookstore." Teams are usually small, divided into two pizza teams, meaning that each team can be fed by two pizza. This is nice.

      Cons

      Employees don't get their own offices, which can sometimes make it hard to program. But of course, this is the case at most programming companies, so it's not really Amazon specific. They have no offices in California, so you pretty much have to move to Seattle.

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