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3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(210,006 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 210,006 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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1.0
Aug 13, 2016
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Pros

I have to write something in this space as a 20 word minimum. Doot doot doot doot doot doot doot.

Cons

You are not even human to the management. They treat you like garbage, and when I tried to seek cross training in hopes of attaining my goal of a single full time job and this as my part time job, I was rejected. I was told the reason was that they were worried that if I had a permanent full time job (as opposed to the temp full time job I had been juggling alongside Amazon), then I might leave Amazon. Well guess what - if I weren't working both some sort of full time job AND a part time job, I'd be homeless! So in that case, I DEFINITELY wouldn't be with Amazon! I left after that. His spiel was the most disrespectful thing I had ever heard.

1.0
Jul 30, 2016
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Pros

I got in early so I made money with the stock options. And I needed a job at that time and they gave me one. I also got to build the core software that keeps track of how many things are available for sale at a given moment. I learned a lot from an older co worker about the fungibilty of inventory, the theory of item is promised to a customer at a point of time, etc. How to build a system that is resilient to outages, bad data, data that is stale etc. I also liked most of the engineers I worked with. If you work here, you will be given tasks that at other companies would go to older and more experienced workers. The reason is that at the pay rate, those folks have left. or wouldn't join as they have other options.

Cons

After a few years it became apparent that they didn't want trained managers, but instead just "yes people." No amount of suggestions that they run the new managers through training seemed to be heard. Pager duty, you will come to hate it. If you have no life, you might not notice, but if you have a family they will hate it. It's what house arrest is all about. Oh sure you can go out, but you need to start working on a page within 20 minutes and not leave it until it's resolved. Try explaining that to your kids why you just packed them up from the park. Or your SO, why you need to get a box to go for dinner. Pay rates, They have a 2 and a 4 year plan. That's because that's the length of time you need to wait for that first vesting of stock and signing bonus and the majority of that first grant. Stack ranking, or rat on your co-workers to try and keep your job during review time. They cut the bottom 5% no matter how good they are in comparison to the rest of the world. They give PIP's to the bottom 10% (Ie threaten them), no raises to the bottom 20%. So if you have a group of 100, even though the company spent thousands on hiring them, waiting until they actually figured out how to do anything useful, training on the internal systems, they toss them right back out. What a waste of money. (It also demoralizes the team for a month or so every review cycle.) If you want a better written review of the place, go find that NYTimes article, it was spot on.

1.0
Jul 25, 2016

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Pros

Short shifts (4-5 hours), paid weekly, free dental and eye care, 2 year degree or certification tuition program (after one year of service), opportunities to learn multiple functions in the work environment, new leadership making improvements to work environment professionally and personally for workers.

Cons

Low pay, no pay increases, problems with payroll due to vendor payroll errors, few opportunities to grow, some inexperienced managers in leadership team, some unethical, immature and self-centered behavior among a few of the leadership with little to no consideration for workers professionally nor personally.

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