Amazon reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(209,096 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 209,096 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
5.0
Jul 4, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

A great place to learn how business and technology work together. The vision and communication from senior leadership is good. Amazon supports a great work/life balance (depending upon your manager). If you ask, you will get answers and justification for various things from compensation, promotions and career advancement. If you are smart you will be rewarded, do not be afraid to challenge. Amazonians respect smarts.

Cons

In some teams the pager duty can be taxing - since developers also must support what they develop.

1.0
Jul 3, 2008
Recommend
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.

3.0
Jul 2, 2008

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Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Fast-paced, innovative, breadth of experience, learning opportunities. One of the best companies in the internet space. Fundamentally a technology company that built pretty much everything from ground up.

Cons

Work-life balance, at all levels. Career progression beyond a certain level is too political (at least in my experience). Amazon, for right reasons, is improving its internal processes but in doing that some bureaucracy is introduced as well.

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