Amazon reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(209,620 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 209,620 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
1.0
Sep 11, 2015

Terrible Culture

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Pros

They pay their professional staff well and grant staff options.

Cons

The culture is horrible and they expect you work many more hours than is reasonable. In the 2 years that I worked there I averaged over 70 hours per week. Work-life balance is non existent. Also, the managers are pitted against each other, they shout at each other, and as a Sr. HR Manager I was helpless to do anything about it.

1.0
Aug 23, 2015
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Pros

Great benefits and if you can last, very good bonuses.

Cons

Zero work life balance. Treated like slaves. Brutal conditions for managers. Work over 80 hours per week is "normal". If you are lucky you get a couple of days off per week, but hey, you are working from home because you are always overloaded with work. Oh, and if that's not enough, enjoy working through lunch loading trailers or packing on a pack line. And good luck getting a minute to use the bathroom. Nope, I am not exaggerating. Amazon SUCKS and treats people like crap. They don't do anything super creative as far as their fulfillment centers go, but they think they do. I watched many people do projects that were not projects at all, but industry standards. Or, my personal favorite was do a project that was done a year ago and failed and just do it again with bogus data (their data is so unreliable) and make it look like you actually accomplished something for a promotion.

2.0
Aug 16, 2015

go elsewhere if able to at all

Anonymous employee
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Pros

health insurance. that's it, that's all. and its really easy to get hired as long as you can maintain a ridiculous work pace and don't have any felonies. great place for smokers since they only use oral drug tests.

Cons

Worked to death, mandatory OT, when I left it must've been in really fine print that the employer contributed part of your 401k wasn't available until you'd been there three years. Management is ridiculous

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