Amazon reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(210,035 total reviews)
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57% positive business outlook

Amazon has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 210,035 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 8, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You can make some good work friend ships (just the lower level workers, not arrogant upper management)

Cons

Worst job. Bonus is whatever. Incentives might seem good...but once your in it you see it's just a way to make it sound better then it actually is. The incentives are horrible. Pay is horrible for what we do. Pretty much do all the hard work to only get a simple thank you while all the higher ups get the bonuses and raises and praise. No opportunities here unless your buddy buddy with management. Hard work gets you no where. You can work hard for 2 years and still be in the same position. They have a stupid saying there that one part says "have fun" there is NO fun here. You'll get yelled at if they see you trying to have fun. So rethink your logic Amazon. Upper management especially the OPS are horrible and a joke. For every one good manager or ops manager there are about 5-8 horrible ones. Which sucks too because the lower horrible managers get hired higher and just become more horrible but with more power. They only higher whoever is kissing their but. Not by hard work. Manamgmet there does not act like management should. They walk around like they created amazon. Smug and arrogant is who they are there. They treat all the lower level employees like their garbage. Yet were the ones that make them look good. Pay is horrible. We work 10 hours to only receive a 30 min lunch. Not to mention there always on you for even a minute of being late after break. Yet they don't say anything when we have to walk 5 min just to get to the break room. Not to mention we actually have these jail sounds now at our facility. Telling us when our break is and telling us when to walk back (not even give a full 15 min break. By 12 it sounds and you need to walk back.) You talk to one of your coworkers for a minute and get talked too by upper management. Yet if you ever see them. All they do is talk. BS. And just on there computers. Even here I've heard the OPS in Moval talk about clubs, girls, money, movies, people, ect. Like wth? Saw ops manager throw a ball to the wall for an hour straight. See them just chill in rooms and do nothing. Yet there the ones making more money and salaries. Lazy bums. We don't get really anything here. You have to kiss the biggest butt and know them just to move up. Hard work gets you no where here. See people sweating and working so hard here. Yet it makes no sense. There is no raise. There is no extra bonus for hard work. Only extra is your just making managemen look good. Which shouldn't be. And let's say you do move up to PA. It's just another job your getting to little to be paid for yet your pretty much doing the managers jobs. Almost every job here is doing someone else's job. Problem solvers do most of the hard work. They are pretty much like supervisors. Yet we get paid and treated like anyone else. All they care is about numbers and volume. They don't care about accuracy. They don't care about efficiency. They'll bleed you dry towards the end of the day. And yell at you to keep working till the end of shift. Yet they don't do anything. Honestly no pros for this company. It is just a company that pays the bills. Don't look for a career here. There is none. And if you think to just go to HR for all these things. Think again. They don't do anything. They will always favor management over anyone else. So even if your in the right. Don't count for anything. HR there is to scared to say anything. They have an open door policy which is garbage too. They do all this talk about you can always come to them. But not even 300 complaints about a managers or almost whatever it is you have a problem with will get resolved. HR there just like the management are jokes. Almost all them need to get rehired or retrained for a month because most either forgot or never got trained how to actually be management. Once you start working here. All you will think about is the day you finally quit. It's one of those jobs that will make you day dream to when your finally out of there. Trust me. See the reviews here. And you can see how many places this is happening. Not just here in our warehouse. But everywhere. And if you do notice. Most of the good reviews are upper management. Yes of course their going to post good reviews. They don't do anything but get paid so well for that. I know I'm not alone in all this. A lot of people feel this way. Especially in my building. The building close to us. Don't work here. Or if you do don't plan on sticking around.

2.0
Jul 23, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Interesting work with some interesting co-workers.

Cons

Poor total compensation (distorted blend of low cash with stock) unless you are an executive. Very passive-aggressive culture that thrives on strategically knifing your competition in the back (this means co-workers). Unless you drink the cool-aid that all things "Jeff" are great, and continually mouth the Jeff platitudes, you will not get anywhere. Plan on working 24/7 while hearing from your boss that work/life balance is important.

1.0
Jul 13, 2015

Cutthroat Environment, Terrible Management & HR

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Prestigious Company, Stock benefits AFTER 4 years of working, The South Lake Union location is much better than being cooped up in the former mental health asylum building.

Cons

Management can be insane depending on the department, HR cares more about covering Amazon. Cutthroat environment where they are constantly telling you that there are a million other people who want your job if you can't perform, which usually means 60+ hours a week, until you're too burned out to care.

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