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Mixed bag - Senior Software Engineer Amazon Web Services Employee Review

3.0
Jan 11, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Move fast and learn a lot about doing things the right way. - Learn a lot of distributed systems and DevOps. - Interesting project opportunities for Senior and beyond.

Cons

- Politics has swept in at a massive scale recently. - Red taping hinders the team progress - Empire building and silos makes it hard to deliver results.

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5.0
Jul 19, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Challenging business, need to keep up with the tech industry. The culture is very team-dependent

Cons

I can't think of one. Perhaps - no free lunch can be one

3.0
Jun 21, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Ambitious projects if you're in the right team. Typically great team-mates. Don't believe the memes, the ppl are not back stabbing jerks but are overall genuinely nice. Not constrained by budgets when building cool things. Tools while sometimes clunky are powerful.

Cons

Schizophrenic lack of focus, entire teams get split, merged and upended multiple times a quarter. Some product managers are disconnected from reality. It didn't use to be the case, the PM-Ts were previously top notch. You're pushed to vibe code everything. Established products with loyal customers are getting neglected. Newer VP level leaders don't seem to know what they are doing. Veteran OG VP level leaders are either leaving in droves or seem stressed or checked out.

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