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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209K reviews
5.0
Jun 18, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

You work hard but the people are smart and they are committed to what they are doing. It's great to work with a fun group of intelligent people that are continually innovating and improving.

Cons

In some ways it's still a company that is growing up and evolving and that can be frustrated at times because it's old enough to have structure and some bureaucracy but not so old that it has everything worked out yet. (Like a teenager.) Most people I know have a love - hate relationship with their jobs.

2.0
Jun 18, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great place to learn the fundamentals of highly distributed/scalable transaction oriented development. Must be young, hungry and kid-free to fully appreciate the experience, it's fast and furious.

Cons

You work very hard, not so bad unless you like to see your kids. The fact that the developers often become first level support for mission critical services, yes this means you will often carry a pager that will wake you at 3 in the morning because a server in Japan is performing aberrantly. There is this aura of thrift that after while creeps darkly into your morale, notably the "horse stall" like offices. It literally seems to be modeled after a warehouse-based sweatshop, right down to the "desk doors". It goes without saying these people are not great followers of Feng Shui.

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