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      3.5

      60% would recommend to a friend

      (209,765 total reviews)
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      Andrew Jassy

      50% approve of CEO

      57% positive business outlook

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      Amazon has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 209,765 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 Tecnologia da informação industry (3.9 stars).

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      210K reviews
      1.0
      Jul 29, 2010

      Worst Place to Work Ever!!!

      Merchandising specialist
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      You can bring your dog to work, you can work from home (sometimes)--which you will be doing ALL the time (NIGHTS and WEEKENDS.)

      Cons

      Management on ALL levels are horrid! You are just a number and unless you brown-nose, you will go nowhere. You will be working at MINIMUM, 55-70+ hours a week (NO work/life balance). You end up spending your valuable time having to constantly train new employees because of the 70% attrition rate. Here's a simple breakdown for you: -Benefits are poor -No work/life balance -No respect at all -You are just a number -You will have no social life -You'll be thrown "under the bus" by your peers and management -Don't expect to be at Amazon longer than 2 years -Discount is a joke Amazon is not the "great" place everyone thinks it is. Yes, they treat their customers great (for the most part,) but they treat their employees like dirt. I don't know many people that have been here longer than 2 years--it's a rarity. It's basically like working at Wal-mart, but online.

      1.0
      Apr 5, 2016

      Don't stay long...

      Software development engineer
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      + learning opportunities + certain autonomy to complete tasks + work with smart & diligent people

      Cons

      - lower than average compensation. compare SDE salaries on glassdoor and you'll see... - politics: some managers are good player of 'visibility' and get promoted for no reason... - no promotion space, even you get promoted, you have minimal leverage to increase your salary. getting promoted by leaving Amazon and coming back seems way easier than following Amazon's internal process... - some team use outdated technologies due to historic reason. working on outdated technology is a waste of your time. meaningless in terms of keeping yourself current with latest dev technologies - ONCALL. NOTORIOUS ONCALL. Use software engineer as cheap front-line support is stupid. Engineer resolve engineering problems, engineers do not shoulder responsibilities of customer call centre/IT support. Period.

      1.0
      Jun 1, 2013

      Worst 'A' Grade company

      Software development engineer
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - You get a good salary while joining - You got to work on high scalable and smart systems - Good blend of technologies and automated systems.

      Cons

      - No work life balance at all, upper management expects you to work on weekends - On-call is terrible (a 24x7 support engineer with a pager to clean the crap) - Even though the notice period is 1 month, managers will try to delay and hold you, almost mentally harass you to serve for around 2 months (Myself has seen at least 4 such cases with different teams). I don't understand whether AMZN gives special training to managers to torture their employees. - Expect promotion once in 4 yrs (6 yrs for some ppl), unless you are good in hypocrisy and politics. There will always a carrot to lure you till you finally give up and leave the company. Forget about awarding, you will figure out that the job is not even rewarding. - Hikes are not impressive unless you get some good amount of stocks. - One lesson: A customer centric company is rarely employee friendly.

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