Amazon reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(209,256 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 209,256 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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2.0
Jun 23, 2008
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Pros

Good for new graduates to work for 1 or 2 years.

Cons

no work life balance. below average benefit package. bad working environment. regular overtime is expected. software engineer needs to carry pager to keep production system running. often gets waken up at 3am for issues in code not written by you.

4.0
Jun 23, 2008
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Pros

very interesting distributed system; large problems; can get work done;

Cons

sometimes hard to get all the right groups working together; I hate watching the same mistake happen just because it's a new team; operations load is non-trivial; sometimes it feels like a bad cross between a startup with not enough resources and a big company with too much bureaucracy

2.0
Jun 23, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I work for Amazon Web Services, which is definitely the hot spot in the company. Great game-changing technology that is shaking up the industry. Absolutely no complaints about what we are doing.

Cons

Amazon has a culture of secrecy, both inside--and especially outside-- the company. They are so obsessive about this that it costs them trust. And trust is money. But worse, Amazon describes itself as frugal. Translated into your experience as an employee, that means cheap. So they do things like delay expense checks, apparently in order to maximize float, and cut corners on salaries and benefits compared to tech industry norms.

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