Amazon reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(209,964 total reviews)
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Andrew Jassy

50% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

Amazon has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 209,964 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
5.0
Jun 24, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits and they start on Day 1, signing bonus, resticted stock options. Internal training protal with hundreds of classes to help you get up to speed and let you develop skills that you are interested in. Leadership Principals that are used daily. Most executives really value their Assistants. Their is a level of respect for this position that I apperciate and found lacking at other work places. Fast paced.

Cons

Fast paced! If you don't believe in the Leadership Principals, then you should look eslewhere. You are expected to be independent and a problem solver. You also have to learn the "Amazonian" way of doing things. You will be humbled many times, but if you are willing, you can gain vast amounts of experience and knowledge in a short amount of time.

1.0
Mar 25, 2020

URA

Recommend
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Pros

nothing i can think so.

Cons

Dev list - Managers really don't care about how much the person has improved or performed. they just have to meet their URA numbers and put people on dev list. no room for growth.

1.0
Jan 2, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Seattle campus offers ample opportunities to engage outside of your day-to-day job -- lectures, book launches, concerts, volunteer opportunities, professional training workshops. Health benefits are not bad. Flexible work from home policy.

Cons

Absolute worst work culture, hence an abnormally high attrition rate for employees within their first year. Hyper competitive and passive aggressive colleagues that are just waiting to throw you under the bus and run to HR to tattle. Rampant turnover stifles productivity and allows under-qualified candidates to assume roles where they have no real expertise. Turnover leads to ever-shifting strategy and planning discussions for projects that never actually make it to execution. Frequently encounter "not my job" syndrome where team's take advantage of the large bureaucracy to evade responsibility. External leaders are hired to be scapegoats for pre-existing organizational issues. Ethical issues are swept under the rug by HR. The best engineers do not always make the best managers -- utter lack of engaged management. Type-A galore. Good luck getting a word in during a meeting when many in the room just want to hear themselves speak. Smart and collaborative employees openly acknowledge that they will only stick around until the larger stock vests that come in year two or three, but have no desire to stay longterm. Never before have I encountered such a culture of coasting, where people actually don't want to get promoted because its not worth the agony it comes with.

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