Amazon reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(209,708 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 209,708 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 IT (Information Technology) industry (3.9 stars).

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210K reviews
3.0
Mar 7, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Fast paced exciting opportunities to work on always something to do, never have to be bored smart people to work with

Cons

no work life balance very hard to get recognition as everyone is trying to outsmart each other crappy legacy systems sdes spend so much time interviewing, dealing with other third party companies instead of doing real sde work immature development practices here and there

2.0
Mar 6, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The company has some amazing engineers and a few good development managers. They'll provide nice new Macs for work as well.

Cons

Impossible to advance with the limited number of grade levels; senior management really doesn't want people to be promoted to any of them. Very high turnover of SDEs. Give serious consideration to not working here if you are mid-career.

4.0
Mar 6, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Very fast paced development cycles. Small teams hence each member has good responsibilities and ownership of project. Small sprints of design, implementation, test and deploy.

Cons

Very less interaction between team members about the project and also across teams. Work life balance not so good.

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