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Q&A With Amazon Employees

Our leadership principles empower us to be owners and innovators while maintaining our customer ecentricity. We're willin to take risks - innovating requires failing.

How employees describe working at Amazon

Open, transparent, detailed technical questions and representative of company culture

Reasonably good pay for my grade.

I'm very happy and grateful for this opportunity. This is a new career move for me. Over 20 years in a different field. Amazon has me excited to come to work everyday again.

Review from Operations Dept

Strong vision and ability to execute

Review from Product Dept

My team is amazing. Thoughtful, smart, and they live our leadership principles.

Review from Marketing Dept
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What it's like to work at Amazon

  • Amazon employees generally work 9.5 hrs a day
  • Employees at Amazon report the work pace is extremely fast
  • On a typical day, employees at Amazon have 2 meetings
  • 81% of Amazon employees look forward to interacting with their team every day
  • Amazon employees most often take 20-30 paid vacation and sick days each year
  • 62% of Amazon employees report they are happy with their work life balance
  • Amazon employees typically get valuable feedback on how to improve at work Every Week
  • 76% of Amazon employees call their work environment positive

Q&A With Amazon Employees

Aggregated Employee Answer on Comparably

  • Amazon's Marketing team rates their overall benefits an A+ and most of them think the perks are Good. 81% of Amazon employees in Marketing say they are satisfied with their benefits. The majority of employees in Marketing also get 20-30 days of paid vacation, and most of them believe the cash value of their benefits is $500 -$1000/mo.

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Aggregated Employee Answer on Comparably

  • Amazon's Design team rates their overall benefits a B and most of them think the perks are Neutral. 71% of Amazon employees in Design say they are satisfied with their benefits. The majority of employees in Design also get 20-30 days of paid vacation, and most of them believe the cash value of their benefits is $1500 - $2500/mo.

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Aggregated Employee Answer on Comparably

  • Amazon's Product team rates their overall benefits a B and most of them think the perks are Neutral. 74% of Amazon employees in Product say they are satisfied with their benefits. The majority of employees in Product also get 15-20 days of paid vacation, and most of them believe the cash value of their benefits is $500 -$1000/mo.

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Aggregated Employee Answer on Comparably

  • Amazon's Engineering team rates their overall benefits a B- and most of them think the perks are Neutral. 71% of Amazon employees in Engineering say they are satisfied with their benefits. The majority of employees in Engineering also get 15-20 days of paid vacation, and most of them believe the cash value of their benefits is $1500 - $2500/mo.

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Aggregated Employee Answer on Comparably

  • 62% of the same employees also feel like Amazon is invested in their career growth. On average, majority of employees have a mentor to help them navigate their career at Amazon.

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Aggregated Employee Answer on Comparably

  • Amazon's Sales team rates their manager an A- or 76/100 and the majority believe their manager truly cares about them as a person. The sales team (62%) also feels pretty comfortable providing negative feedback directly to their boss.

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  • Amazon's Legal team rates their manager a C+ or 67/100 and the majority believe their manager truly cares about them as a person. The legal team (67%) also doesn't feel comfortable providing negative feedback directly to their boss.

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  • Amazon's IT team rates their manager an A or 78/100 and the majority believe their manager truly cares about them as a person. The it team (64%) also feels pretty comfortable providing negative feedback directly to their boss.

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Aggregated Employee Answer on Comparably

  • Amazon's HR team rates their manager a B or 71/100 and the majority believe their manager truly cares about them as a person. The hr team (65%) also feels pretty comfortable providing negative feedback directly to their boss.

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  • Amazon's Marketing team rates their manager an A or 78/100 and the majority believe their manager truly cares about them as a person. The marketing team (68%) also feels pretty comfortable providing negative feedback directly to their boss.

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  • Amazon's Design team rates their manager a B or 71/100 and the majority believe their manager truly cares about them as a person. The design team (55%) also feels pretty comfortable providing negative feedback directly to their boss.

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Aggregated Employee Answer on Comparably

  • Amazon's Product team rates their manager a B- or 70/100 and the majority believe their manager truly cares about them as a person. The product team (69%) also feels pretty comfortable providing negative feedback directly to their boss.

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Aggregated Employee Answer on Comparably

  • Amazon's Engineering team rates their manager a B+ or 74/100 and the majority believe their manager truly cares about them as a person. The engineering team (64%) also feels pretty comfortable providing negative feedback directly to their boss.

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Aggregated Employee Answer on Comparably

  • Amazon employees rates their pay and overall compensation a B+ or 73/100. 69% of employees believe they are paid fairly and 69% of employees get raises every year.

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44% of Amazon employees would encourage their friends to become coworkers, whereas 24% are neutral and 32% would not recommend working at Amazon to their friends.

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