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Amazon Web Services reviews

3.6

62% would recommend to a friend

(14,058 total reviews)
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Matt Garman

52% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Amazon Web Services has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 14,058 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Amazon Web Services employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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14K reviews
4.0
Sep 1, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Decent salary, smart people to work with, almost fully remote options, paid team offsites every 1 or 2 quarters

Cons

The projects in ProServe are crap... the customer either hires you as a dummy to do grunt work, or to do something crazy like solve all of humanity's problems. There's not much in between. ProServe, I realized, is just a stepping stone into SDE or SA positions, or the occasional manager. Don't stay here for more than 2 years, few people do anyway

3.0
Sep 1, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Competitive salary with stock options. Exposition to interesting projects.

Cons

A lot of unnecessary projects that get buried after a year just causing clutter. There are hot periods like the annual review where you have to step up your game by exceeding the amount of working hrs per day to stay ahead of your competitors (colleagues). Lots of office politics.

2.0
Sep 1, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

My manager was nice. Lots of opportunity to learn. AWS looks good on your resume.

Cons

The work is way too stressful, and all metric based. If you have anxiety, the role will be difficult because you have to learn so much in so little time and are expected to help customers with the little training you receive. Live contacts are also hard to deal with as you have to find a solution to an issue quickly. You have to do a certain amount of case resolves per week, and also customers have the ability to rate your response. Most of the time the customer ratings are unjustified but you will get penalized for it anyway. Each team and site have different ways of training. Unfortunately, I did not get proper training in my team and my mentor was very rude. It doesn’t feel fair because my other coworkers in a different site (same team) got a more extensive training program. Also have to mention that if you quit or get fired before working a full year, you will have to pay back your prorated bonus AND relocation stipend. So that means you’d have to pay back around $20,000+ depending on how early you quit. So if you’re considering accepting the role, keep this in mind.

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