Amazon reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(209,060 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 209,060 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
Jun 12, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

being surrounded by very smart and passionate people who come from all over the country, great pay and options, job growth and opportunities if you demonstrate talent, they take technology very seriously and encourage experimentation and give more than enough resources, the pride that comes from working on a mass-scale consumer product for a globally recognized company

Cons

being in seattle, the weather is horrid, coworkers just running out the clock due to being discouraged to contribute big changes to a huge corporate bureaucracy with a million constraints,

4.0
Jun 12, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The scale and breadth of the work is energizing, and I am free to solve problems in just about any way I like. The people are also generally charged, smart and inspiring making it fun to meet and work with most everyone.

Cons

Projects are often under resourced and overly ambitious, creating an frenetic unfocused environment that can sometimes be hard to get simple things done. The frugal mindset is sometimes just cheap, which can cost more in the long run. It's okay to spend money when it ends up being well amortized.

3.0
Jun 12, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Learn a lot about the mindset needed to run a business effectively - more than you can learn at most other companies

Cons

Bad work-life balance, too much politics, lack of recognition - especially if you come in with lot of experience. At Amazon people who "grow" at Amazon coming in as fresh college grads tend to do well- because local Amazon business skills matter more than your technical capabilties. You have to unlearn lot of stuff to be effective at Amazon.

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