Amazon reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(209,319 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 209,319 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
4.0
Jun 20, 2008
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

The energy and pace of growth makes it a really exciting place to work. Coworkers are generally interesting and fun people. Work environment is casual with a true open door policy, lots of manic panic in the hair of management, and other similar monikers of a laid back internet company culture.

Cons

Communication about initiatives is a bit lacking, things move so fast you need to take responsibility for your own development. Work/life balance can get out of hand and you have to learn to place limits on your own time. If you let yourself work 24 hours a day, there's plenty of work to do but you need to manage your own time.

4.0
Jun 18, 2008
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

You get to work on challenging problems and learn from some of the best engineers out there. There also tends to be a clear correlation between what you're working on and tangible business objectives. Also, individual development groups have a lot of autonomy in how they work. (This has it's downsides; see below.)

Cons

Amazon's philosophy of minimal top-down policies on how work gets done leads to a lot of duplicated work, a lot of ways to do the same thing depending on which group you're working on, and a lot of confusion.

2.0
Jun 12, 2008

SO WHAT'S UP WITH PERSONEL AT AMAZON

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

WELL KNOWN, STARTUP COMPANY. A PRESTEGOUS IMAGE. EXCELLENT FOOD SERVICE. SEEM TO BE HIRING LOTS OF PEOPLE

Cons

SENIOR MANAGEMENT SEEMS TEMPRAMENTAL AND SOMEWHAT POMPUS. VERY QUICK TO POINT OUT MISTAKES AND TO THROW HISSY FITS WHEN MISTAKES ARE MADE. MANAGEMENT APPEARS TO FIRE PERSONEL QUICKLY AND HAS 20-100 PEOPLE REPORTING TO NEW EMPLOYEE ORIENTATION EACH WEEK. DOES THAT MEAN THAT 20-100 EMPLOYEES ARE FIRED EACH WEEK?

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