Amazon reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(209,260 total reviews)
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Andrew Jassy

50% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

Amazon has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 209,260 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
Sep 15, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The work is very interesting and challenging. My colleagues are very nice and helpful. The working location is also good.

Cons

You need to work very hard in the team. Sometimes you need to work during weekends. So, if you want an easy life, it is not a good choice.

5.0
Aug 19, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Amazon.com is a great company to work for. Features are always designed with the customer in mind. Customer trust/loyalty is high. Very short release cycles (less than one month), means that your work has an immediate impact. Many managers were SDEs at some point, so they have reasonable expectations. Easy to switch to different teams working on completely different technologies (must remain with a team for at least a year, but free to move afterwards). Opportunities to move from SDE to management.

Cons

Pager rotation - Building a large scale web service with tons of customers, means that any bugs encountered needs to be fixed immediately by the responsible team. Quick release cycles exacerbate this. Rotations are typically split evenly across the SDEs of a team.

4.0
Jul 13, 2010

Intern

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great Benefits Great People Good Salary Flexbility Good Management

Cons

Hard Hours Tough Job Long Days Not good Locations

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