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      3.5

      60% would recommend to a friend

      (209,257 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 209,257 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
      Jun 18, 2008

      Challenging work environment, not for the faint of heart

      Software development engineer iii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Working at Amazon is technically challenging. Amazon has a very high bar for its employees which results in a company of smart and dedicated people. It is a great place to learn and provides lots of opportunity for growth both in terms of technical skills and in terms of job opportunities. It is very easy to get information about what other teams/groups/departments are doing.

      Cons

      Work and life balance are hard to maintain at Amazon. Amazon can, and will, suck up all of your time if you let it. Some development teams are heavily burdened by on-call support. One of Amazon's core values is frugality which results in less than optimal health benefits.

      4.0
      Jun 18, 2008

      Reasonably satisfied engineer

      Software development engineer ii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      You get to work on challenging problems and learn from some of the best engineers out there. There also tends to be a clear correlation between what you're working on and tangible business objectives. Also, individual development groups have a lot of autonomy in how they work. (This has it's downsides; see below.)

      Cons

      Amazon's philosophy of minimal top-down policies on how work gets done leads to a lot of duplicated work, a lot of ways to do the same thing depending on which group you're working on, and a lot of confusion.

      1.0
      Jun 18, 2008

      Great place for interns to start their careers.

      Software development engineer ii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The people here are good, and the company has accomplished some great things. The interview process is grueling but effective; there aren't very many people here lacking in intelligence. The management has realized the value of a balanced life; we aren't asked to work extended hours. At least in my group, they're doing their best to keep the unpleasantness of being on call to a minimum. The mentoring program seems to be pretty good; the principal engineers put on some pretty interesting presentations describing the technologies that they're working with, and technical issues that affect developers. There are some interesting technical problems to solve at Amazon, so if you're lucky enough to be on a team that's solving them, you will probably be quite happy here.

      Cons

      For the most part, the work is maintenance. Most engineers end up spending more time wading through low-quality code and fighting with configuration problems in the development environment than they do coding. Unless you're on a team that's developing new software, most of the code required is little more than patches and glue. Most of Amazon's technology is out of date, including the low-end computers that the developers receive as workstations. The main platform is several years and two versions behind the times, and there's a surprising amount of business-critical code written in low-quality Perl. All of this is exacerbated by a fairly mediocre benefits package.

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