Amazon reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(209,782 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 209,782 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 Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
Jul 8, 2015

Not for every one

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Pros

1. Salary and sign on can be high (can seem high) for the first year 2. There are some really smart people which makes for a great work environment, at times

Cons

1. Amzn is good only for people who join straight out of the school. If you have some experience, then you will find this place doesnt value your previous experience. You will be under-leveled and will have to climb through multiple steps 2. Amzn is run by engineers; non-engineers (PMs, Business managers) have very less say - not this can be org dependent. There can be teams where this is not true 3. Political: People parrot the leadership principles but in reality every one wants to build their own pyramid, even if it means overall sub-optimality 4. Operational load; You will spend innumerable hours deep diving on stuff that has no relevance. This is the first place where people go on vacation and never return. I have never seen a place, where every one is eternally unhappy - it seems like every one is just waiting to leave

2.0
May 7, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

You are part of a company that is really thinking out of the box and doing cool things. Compensation is very competitive.

Cons

NO WORK LIFE BALANCE! The culture is just that you work A LOT. The company doesn't take care of their employees. There's a lot of turnover and employees who are burnt out within 1 year. Tenure is usually 1 year. It seems like there isn't a lot of development for managers.

2.0
May 6, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Owned a variety of projects from start to finish, really liked most of my team and client group, training opportunities available, manager open to help for career development and weekly syncs, flexible schedule with opportunity to work from home, corporate credit card even for level 4 employees for event planning, traveling and staying at nice hotels with awesome catering for recruiting events. Great role if you want to become a recruiter.

Cons

We work in open-wall team rooms which can get really loud and disruptive. There is no privacy and everyone hears when a recruiter is really failing at a phone call to close a candidate or sell a role. High maintenance recruiters, especially full-life cycles and client leads. Some recruiters can make your job hell by requesting a number of changes when your job is done because they didn't care enough to tell you before you started working on a loop. Some can be really rude in making demands because they are stressed about their metrics. Lots of stress. Constant fires throughout the day: last minute interview requests with short lead times and no one willing to interview the candidate. This is an even bigger problem when your team asks to do an event last minute. Also interviewers pull out throughout the day and it's the RCs problem to find a replacement. All this while your regular deadline for scheduling other interviews is ticking away. Your co-workers have varied talent levels at a company that needs to grow quickly along with constant turnover. If the other RCs on your team are crap, all of the recruiters push their work to you instead of the other RC. After seeing the recruiters at work, I did not want to become one.

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