Amazon reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(209,907 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 209,907 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
3.0
Aug 8, 2014

Choose career or family life

Recommend
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Pros

Growing company. Cutting-edge. Creating jobs for thousands across the US and globally. Opportunities to relocate (manager and hourly associates). You have a change to make a difference in the actually business - have an idea, try it out. You learn you are able to stretch and accomplish more than you probably thought possible.

Cons

Essentially, you have to choose between having a career or family/personal life. Unless you have a very understanding stay-at-home spouse, it's hard to maintain a household. Work hours are consistently 12-hours as a norm (even non-peak). Very fast-paced with high expectations which is not a bad thing except when the expectations become unreasonable to achieve. Unless you want a career in the fulfillment center environment, you will have to move to Seattle for almost any other "corporate" position. Despite the many additional locations throughout the US, corporate function job opportunities have not grown and expanded as well. Base salaries are low because stock is offered. Stock is nice, but not a guarantee although it is a major portion of the total compensation package.

1.0
Mar 5, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Fast paced, lots to do. - Top of the line tech, hone your design and implementation skills.

Cons

- Stack ranking review process. Every year, low 10% given the axe or asked to leave. - Management doesn't know what to prioritize; competing pulls from busiess. Leads to occasional failure to deliver and politicking to avoid blame (if you are not politically savvy, you'll be the one to fall). - Engineers are treated with less respect than they are at Google or MS; slave driving managers are rewarded and managers seeking sustainable goals are punished for not being aggressive enough. - Brutal oncall.

5.0
Jan 27, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You're surrounded by bright, creative people, from diverse backgrounds. Truly a global company, focused on hiring the best candidates from around the world. All-hands meetings teach you about various areas of the business, and the CEO always shares bits of wisdom, followed by open, virtually anything goes, Q&A. Great stock benefits, if you can hold out through year 3. Open environment where constructive criticism is valued. You're typically empowered to run your own space.

Cons

When Amazonians start to believe their own press, they can make bad decisions. Many strong referrals are rejected via bar-raiser arrogance, to the point that you no longer want to sponsor references for fear of a bad candidate experience. Too much time is spent finding the "bad" in good employees during annual rating exercises. Time would be better spent in making their great employees even stronger.

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