Amazon reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(209,404 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 209,404 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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209K reviews
3.0
Sep 23, 2009
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Many talented managers and employees. Management was generally aware of problems with technology, departmental communication, etc and worked to fix them (slowly but surely). Regular reviews of employees. Good bens (health insurance includes massage, physical therapy, mental, etc and dental is inexpensive).

Cons

There are a lot of dead end jobs at Amazon. Although, it seems like the potential for great career growth should be high there given the size and breadth of the company, many good employees find themselves trapped in boring, tedious jobs for way to long with no potential for recognition or advancement. Thus, it could be necessary to work at Amazon for a couple years to get that line on your resume, then go elsewhere for upward mobility, then come back later when you're qualified for a higher level position.

3.0
Sep 21, 2009
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

You'll get big responsibilities and opportunities if you want them. Although your salary won't grow much, top performers will see their bonuses and stock rewards surpass it.

Cons

Very little professional development is available - you better be trained before you start the job because you won't have time to get your training elsewhere either. You'll only get promoted if you befriend Directors and above or work so long they feel sorry enough for you that they finally promote you. As a result, most competent people leave to grow their skills elsewhere and only those who can't get a job elsewhere stay to rise into upper/middle management (e.g. most Directors, VPs, and at least half of Senior VPs are incompetent). A lot of smart people in the bottom of the org, and a few smart people at the top (e.g. Jeff Bezos) run the company and often bypass people-managers in the middle.

4.0
Sep 19, 2009
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

awesome large scale problems to work on.

Cons

hit or miss - depends on what group you end up in. platform groups have been awesome technically, but you're far from the customer. app groups are stressful, but you have the pleasure of building customer facing stuff.

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