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      3.5

      60% would recommend to a friend

      (209,794 total reviews)
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      50% approve of CEO

      57% positive business outlook

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      Amazon has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 209,794 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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      210K reviews
      1.0
      Nov 30, 2011

      Bad place to work

      Wearhouse
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The only pro I can think of is that the hiring process was very very fast, maybe too fast for me to make an informed decission to work there.

      Cons

      The list can be so long. hard back breaking work, not easy on the body. the company and management treat you like a slave. more than 1 second late from a break and you get writen up. Written up really? is this Jr. High? Break starts from the time you leave your "station" and it takes 5 minutes to walk to break area. So in a sense your break is only 5 minutes long. Management has an attitude that they are better than you. It's a low paying job at only $12.50 an hour and you are rated on how many packages you handle on top of that. bad company policies for employee's

      3.0
      Oct 26, 2011

      It will chew you up if you let it

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      If you can get away from the legacy technology there's a lot of cool new stuff being worked on, and the people there are generally brilliant and passionate. It's a good place to learn a lot about technology and best practices.

      Cons

      Your job has to come before your life -- beyond the dreaded pager rotation, people routinely work evenings and weekends at home, and in general you need to have your head in the job 24/7. Amazon has a deservedly bad reputation for how it treats low-level employees, partners, and basically everyone it does business with. Not a place to work if you want to have a warm fuzzy feeling about your employer.

      3.0
      Sep 5, 2011

      Experience from various Amazon departments

      Software development engineer ii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Amazon does a great job of hiring the best people. You will get to work with some of the smartest people you'll encounter anywhere. I met more people with 2+ advanced degrees while working in the supply chain group than anywhere else.

      Cons

      There is hardly any chance of a person receiving a promotion. Part of the problem with hiring the best people is that really good performance is considered average. With hundreds of engineers in an organization only a tiny number would ever be promoted in a year. It's very discouraging. There are 2 very different worlds in Amazon, the older areas and the newer ones. Working in the original operations or retail areas you can have a work life balance. However, in the AWS division people are expected to work roughly 60 hours per week. There is no work/life balance. If you have a family your spouse really can't have a job.

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