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Opportunities for growth and corporate misery/BS - Software Engineer Amazon Web Services Employee Review

3.0
Dec 9, 2025
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Pros

Lots of opportunities to tackle high impact projects and growth opportunities, own projects, etc.

Cons

Work life balance is awful, depending on team. Lots of empire building, over promising and under delivering for the sake of PR wins, unimpressed with overall engineering/software development talent. They want to treat SDEs like service slinging monkeys --- complex products requiring domain expertise struggle since service SDEs are the primary employee commodity.

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5.0
Jun 22, 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Strong engineering culture, competitive pay, great learning opportunities, and excellent internal mobility across teams.

Cons

Work-life balance can be tough, on-call rotations are demanding, and the pace is fast with high expectations.

3.0
Jul 21, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

-Great place to learn -Work with some of the smartest people in the industry -Flexibility/autonomy in schedule (not impacted by RTO)

Cons

-Constant reorgs and shifts in leadership: I went through a reorg almost every January and had 6 managers in 2.5 years. Inconsistent leadership makes it hard to feel aligned to a company/team vision or to feel supported. -Promotions are highly political and your manager plays a huge role in whether you advance. Managers rarely have career conversations with reps, which leaves little real path for growth. Good managers want to see their team develop and help them get there. -Comp plan changes reduced sellers' ability to accelerate and lowered pay year over year. Comp plans are dictated by Operations, not Sales Leadership.

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