Is Amazon a good company to work for as a User Experience Designer?

User Experience Designer professionals working at Amazon have rated their employer with 3.7 out of 5 stars in 91 Glassdoor reviews. This is a higher than average score with the overall rating of Amazon employees being 3.5 out of 5 stars. Search open User Experience Designer Jobs at Amazon now and start preparing for your job interview by browsing frequently asked User Experience Designer interview questions at Amazon .

Does Amazon pay User Experience Designer employees well?

User Experience Designer professionals rate their compensation and benefits at Amazon with 3.4 out of 5 stars based on 91 anonymously submitted employee reviews. This is 8.5% worse than the company average rating for salary and benefits. Find out more about User Experience Designer salaries at Amazon.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Amazon?

Warehouse Associate (11123) , Warehouse Worker (6916) , Associate (6212) , Software Engineer (6182) , Area Manager (5707) , Software Development Engineer (SDE) (3521) , Fulfillment Associate (3411) , Software Development Engineer (3185) , Customer Service Representative (3048) , Program Manager (2484) , Operations Manager (2300) , Customer Service Associate (2220) , Sortation Associate (1869) , Manager (1455) , Process Assistant (1422)

What are the pros of working at Amazon according to real employee reviews?

"Pay is good but not worth the asks made from IT and how they are treated" ((in 19449 reviews)); "good benefits you have to get good benefits because everything else at amazon is terrible!!" ((in 13301 reviews)); "A lot of information that is useful and great people to go to when you need something" ((in 7725 reviews)); "It's a very huge company all around the world and it keep satisfying their employees with good salary and accommodation" ((in 5801 reviews)); "The work culture is good and I never felt that I was new in the company" ((in 4892 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Amazon according to real employee reviews?

"You do work bloody hard and very long hours so there is no work life balance" ((in 10098 reviews)); "You work long hours and not as many breaks as you would like or need at times" ((in 7037 reviews)); "Poor management can lead to unnecessary stress and even impact your standing within the company." ((in 6655 reviews)); "There are also bad managers that are rude and do not care about the feelings of their associates." ((in 5202 reviews)); "The company advertises peak season as the long hours and hard push but it really happens routinely throughout the year." ((in 2429 reviews))

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Amazon User Experience Designer reviews

3.7

86% would recommend to a friend

(91 total reviews)

Andrew Jassy

97% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

3.5

Work/Life balance

3.5

Career opportunities

3.4

Compensation and benefits

3.3

Diversity & inclusion

3.0

Culture & values

3.0

Senior management

User Experience Design employees have rated Amazon with 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 91 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most User Experience Design professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by User Experience Design professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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91 reviews

2.0

Mar 31, 2016

Low design competence, high egos

User experience designer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Getting paid to work on some interesting projects (in between some really crappy ones). There are some start-up-like groups within the company that launched interesting experiments.

Cons

Overall the understanding of design process is abizmally poor. Everyone thinks they have all the answers, demanding that you also make things up on the spot, without being given the room to practice design thinking, and they don't really grasp how really challenging it is to get UX right.

1.0

Jul 18, 2015

UX designer

User experience designer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

- not many smart employee in engineering - very unprofessional Product manger - no perks

Cons

- City life - Good office condition

3.0

Nov 9, 2014

The beat is fading for Amazon Music

User experience designer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

- Lots of opportunity to own your projects and deliver - Learn how to navigate and deal with politics :) - Great salary - Great name on the resume - Great cultural values that apply to anywhere you work after Amazon (except for the frugality part)

Cons

- Turnover is very high, people usually stick around 6 months to a year. People leave every week. - Toxic frugal culture, too cheap to give you the proper tools for you to do your job (software licenses, equipment, etc) - Dog eat dog culture, political as it gets - Lack of collaboration, people are willing to throw each other under the bus to further themselves - Lack of trust from management, management micromanages and even if you have data to prove why things should be a certain way, they will tell you to do it their way because they override you - No one cares about making a quality product, it's always about just shipping things that just work and never revisiting to optimize or improve the product.

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