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      3.5

      60% would recommend to a friend

      (209,539 total reviews)
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      Andrew Jassy

      50% approve of CEO

      57% positive business outlook

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      Amazon has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 209,539 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
      Jun 14, 2010

      Stay away from this place--toxic as hell

      Editor
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      Pros

      Working with smart people, emergiing technologies, challenging work

      Cons

      Misguided management makes daily existence miserable, brown-nosing rewarded over actual work, liars profit from the spoken word more than the done deed.

      1.0
      Jul 3, 2008

      Don't think that Amazon is a place to advance your career.

      Director of business development
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      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The company is certainly doing well from a business perspective...but that is on the backs of their employees. Benefits are OK, but there are plenty of other companies that provide better.

      Cons

      VP and higher are getting incredible packages with options but the rest of the folks only get RSU's. Sebastian Gunningham received 350,000 options and I can't see why he should receive that higher number based on his overall performance.

      1.0
      Jun 18, 2008

      Great place for interns to start their careers.

      Software development engineer ii
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      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The people here are good, and the company has accomplished some great things. The interview process is grueling but effective; there aren't very many people here lacking in intelligence. The management has realized the value of a balanced life; we aren't asked to work extended hours. At least in my group, they're doing their best to keep the unpleasantness of being on call to a minimum. The mentoring program seems to be pretty good; the principal engineers put on some pretty interesting presentations describing the technologies that they're working with, and technical issues that affect developers. There are some interesting technical problems to solve at Amazon, so if you're lucky enough to be on a team that's solving them, you will probably be quite happy here.

      Cons

      For the most part, the work is maintenance. Most engineers end up spending more time wading through low-quality code and fighting with configuration problems in the development environment than they do coding. Unless you're on a team that's developing new software, most of the code required is little more than patches and glue. Most of Amazon's technology is out of date, including the low-end computers that the developers receive as workstations. The main platform is several years and two versions behind the times, and there's a surprising amount of business-critical code written in low-quality Perl. All of this is exacerbated by a fairly mediocre benefits package.

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