Amazon reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(209,259 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 209,259 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 Informatique industry (3.9 stars).

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209K reviews
1.0
Jan 8, 2010

Be Prepared To Do Your Worst Work!

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Pros

Location, location, location - easy commute if you live in Seattle. Some smart folks working down in the "trenches". An "OK" job for someone right out of school, and never experienced anything better. But a <b>horrible experience</b> for a seasoned professional.

Cons

Multiple projects mislead by mid to upper level management who had no idea what they wanted. Really guys, can you waste anymore of my time on such a simple project? Upper management caving to whims of executive management during project reviews - upper management would say one thing during a team review and do a complete 360 during executive reviews. A dry, sterile work environment…not a lot of happy folks to deal with on a daily basis. A fair number of personality challenged individuals. Archaic publishing systems and mediocre hardware provided to employees.

3.0
Jan 2, 2010

Meatgrinder, but never boring

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Company continues to grow, and will always look at good ideas. Easy opportunities to move forward if you are talented and want to grind it out.

Cons

It's a meatgrinder, and turnover is unbelievable. Senior leadershipo could take a better approach to long term employee morale and build a better company.

4.0
Dec 31, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Good opportunity to work on real-world scaling problems. Lots of new project initiatives, and still some good challenges in migrating from legacy systems.

Cons

On-call rotation for almost all engineers.

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