Amazon reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(209,290 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 209,290 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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4.0
Jun 25, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Great, smart people who are passionate about their roles as builders. High bar for excellence and analytics. Challenging and constantly changing business opportunities that make each job "new again" on a regular basis. Jeff is a visionary and is one of the few CEOs of Fortune 500 companies that is actively involved in creating value for shareholders.

Cons

Zero work/life balance; too much communication by email rather than face to face collaboration; customer focus spotty although a core value; overly dominated by software development engineers who lack general business management, leadership or basic social skills; there's the feeling that anyone/everyone is ultimately expendable with the exception of Jeff which leads to a subtle "temporary" feeling to anyone's tenure at the company.

4.0
Jun 24, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Amazon attracts very bright engineers who are motivated to solve large and complex problems. The culture encourages creative and diverse solutions and promotes knowledge sharing through brown bags and tech talks. Amazon has created a robust technical community within the company.

Cons

Amazon can be a very dynamic environment that some might consider chaotic which is a tough environment for technical program managers. TPMs often work with 6-10 other teams, all of which claim to have limited resources. Also, since Amazon hires very smart individuals, it seems that in meetings, everyone thinks he/she is the smart person in the room. This can lead to contentious debates and more chaos.

3.0
Jun 24, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

the initial salary, signing bonus, and the stock is not bad. the people are generally pretty smart, projects are of interesting complexity.

Cons

no substantial salary increases after you are hired.

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