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      3.5

      60% would recommend to a friend

      (209,958 total reviews)
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      Andrew Jassy

      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 209,958 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
      2.0
      Jul 9, 2008

      Great for the resume if your psyche can handle it.

      Site editor
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      CEO approval
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      Pros

      The best reasons to work at Amazon would be the following: resume building, experience in a dynamic environment, where you could design and run with a project. There can be room to make your position what you'd like it to be if you're on the right team.

      Cons

      The downsides to working at Amazon would be the following: it's very political, there are a lot of back-stabbers, you cannot trust your peers or HR, you do not get the support you need to run projects, you don't have the tools you need to do your job, and the constant changes make some processes very manual.

      1.0
      Jun 23, 2008

      A review of Amazon

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Pros

      I really appreciate the customer focus.

      Cons

      While they pride themselves on long-term strategy, it's not a universal theme, and many areas are too focused on short-term success. Not enough clear organization and planning, poor communication.

      2.0
      Jun 13, 2008

      Legacy code green-card sweatshop from hell

      Software development engineer
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      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Surviving the abuse will give you unbelievable skills. Most of your peers are incredibly smart, competent, and talented people who will teach you all the things you didn't learn in school.

      Cons

      They don't tell you that "TDD" stands for "Ticket-Driven Development". The whole company lives and dies by the trouble ticketing system, but generally the accepted software engineering best practices are ignored. Since there is such an amazing trouble ticket system and nothing gets done unless it's a ticket, managers force death marches to launch awful code that is debugged one high severity ticket at a time by whomever is on-call. The attrition rate speaks for itself.

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