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      3.5

      60% would recommend to a friend

      (209,907 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 209,907 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
      Dec 17, 2015

      operation

      Operations manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Managerial roles' pay is good (however, if you consider the long hours you work the pay is not high at all) And you got great company brand names. Health insurance and 401 are just average package because the company is very stingy. Those are the only pros I can think of.

      Cons

      there is no pros for this company. Managers are loosely organized and don't care about their employee. Personal time and vacation are not flexible because they are so short of people and could not just let you go for time off. Its like working in the military because everyone are forced to obey the "company culture" which are very rigid and stupid disciplines

      2.0
      Oct 9, 2015

      everything you've already heard is probably true

      Senior manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Amazon was a great place to grow a new career, and there was a lot of opportunity for me to try new things. When I found a good team and stayed there for a few years, it was very rewarding, and I was able to track the results of my team to the performance of my overall organization and the company. I think that is rare in tech. I stayed for more than 10 years because the culture was results-driven and it (at least theoretically) rewarded experiments and risk taking.

      Cons

      The culture began to shift a few years ago, when there was significant growth across the company. New employees brought baggage and processes with them that created unnecessary red tape, and the focus was no longer on customers. Employees were stepping all over each other because there were so many people doing the exact same thing or highly related things, resulting in tons of politics and backhanded "partnerships." I worked for several teams over the years, and work/life balance was never a priority. Every new opportunity resulted in more hours, more pressure, more politics. The review system rewarded the wrong things--politics and yes men, not results and leadership principles. For me, it was not worth sticking around for the "golden handcuff" stock options.

      3.0
      Sep 26, 2015

      Best/Worst Job I've ever had

      Human resources business partner
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great pay, solid opportunity to do more. No one will tell you not to take something on.

      Cons

      If you don't watch it an set up some parameters, you will have ZERO work life balance. Burn out is very common for my peers. Long hours, tons of workload, high stress environment.

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