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      3.5

      60% would recommend to a friend

      (210,064 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 210,064 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
      Oct 11, 2012

      Amazon burns through employees

      Software engineer ii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great customer service, name recognition, taking risks

      Cons

      Dysfunctional micro-management, extreme stress, on-call pager duty, lack of respect for developer skill and experience.

      2.0
      Apr 26, 2012

      The AWS manager said...

      Software development engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      There are great engineers all over the company. And the older divisions, like retail and supply chain are reasonably paced and supported.

      Cons

      AWS was horrible. When I told a manager I was working harder than I'd ever worked he replied "Well, I don't want you to work 80 hours a week." And I thought, great, your threshold for overwork is 20 hours past mine. Also, the pay really isn't great. When I left my salary went up at least 10% and my time working dropped 20%.

      2.0
      Apr 5, 2012

      Fast paced, Insane deadlines, Flawed Advancement, and kinda boring

      Software development engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Amazon.com is a great place to get started in your career. It will teach and challenge you at the same time. Project work can be challenging (5% of the time) The kind of people who work in the company are very smart and will keep you on your toes. The customer centrism is a strong guiding force in the company, and it is reflected in everything the company does.

      Cons

      Amazon.com has been slowly degrading as a great place to work. It took several years for me to notice, however there it is. Project deadlines are insane (95% of the time). The company's customer centrism works against it as a workplace as company employees are not customers. Your needs come secondarily to the customer. Which means: No perks, no philanthropy, small raises if any, low powered equipment, and a general lack of care by upper management for the operations load generated by rushing projects out the door. (So that pager going off in the middle of the night? yhea... tell me that isn't irritating at 4 in the morning)

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