Amazon reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(209,103 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 209,103 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
4.0
Jul 20, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Amazon is a very innovative company with never a dull moment at work. Management greatly encourages new ideas/technology, given that you can get some free time off your operational load (see below). The company has some of the smartest people around and provides awesome learning and career growth opportunities. If you ever wonder what does it take to keep a large scale distributed system working where the customer never even realizes the machinery behind amazon.com, you need to come work at Amazon. Great place to work at, learn some new stuff and have fun while doing it. Amazon totally rocks!

Cons

Operational load messes up your regular development work. Be prepared to live with chaos.

1.0
Jul 17, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Because you are everything (PM, SDE, SDET, Build/Deployment Engineer, Support Engineer), you can learn a lot. But this comes at a huge cost of sacrificing your life. If you have nothing else to do in life this is a great place for you to kill your time.

Cons

Long working hours carrying a pager which will page you 100's of times when you are on call no work life balance.

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