Amazon Web Services reviews

-you have to actively manage worklife balance daily basis. The work will suck you in if you let it. -your life will suck if you have a bad manager...as is true for most large companies. -because Amazon is so big.., basic tasks (e.g. getting IT support) can be a very lenghtly process if you don't know where to start -because Amazon is so big...there are so many reports. way too many reports. keep track and take notes if you want to find the needed report again. -be prepared to read...a lot. AWS is a reading heavy culture. some meetings start with a 20 min doc read, where everyone in the is silent, reading to themselves. strange if it's your first time. -many employees are struggling with depression and other mental health issues (as shared in the employee mental health Slack channel) due to workload and perceived lack of support from their management

Never been so exploited in my life. After two straight years of overachieving quota I was told they were “thinking” of putting me on a plan, which was an axe over my head. Manager literally told me my success was like a tree falling in the woods (you know the rest), even though I was on a team with over 30 people on it which made it impossible to get noticed because my manager played favorites with certain demographics who did much less work. I was also told because I wasn’t apart of any DEI groups I had a target on my back. Had a new team member get promoted to Team Lead within 4 months of being on the team and our 1:1s turned into me coaching them. Management also has to select people to put on plan every year regardless of performance, which explains why they couldn’t give me a solid explanation of why they wanted to get rid of me. I was told to do work that had nothing to do with my job which gave me an avg workday of about 10-12 hours at my desk. Your management will abuse you then ask you for ways to help them get promoted. Many of whom were cycled through new leadership roles within a year. 2 years after working there I still resent the time I wasted slaving away for them. Luckily this was during the pandemic so I didn’t have much else to do but it’s an extremely tolling culture. In any other sales org you are rewarded for hitting your number but here that was only one small piece of what it takes to get noticed. They will tell you everyone is an Army of One when you come on. Your experience at other companies will not matter and they will even put you down for it.