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Amazon Web Services

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Terrible company, terrible team - Software Development Engineer Amazon Web Services Employee Review

2.0
Oct 23, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Amazon offers a great opportunity for NGs and provides great salaries and benefits.

Cons

The team you work with relies heavily on luck. Most of the time, your manager would hire you in to fire you. And other times, they'll force you to do a lot of work under pressure. Once you fail to do so, you are going into the Focus and Pivot and can never come out.

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5.0
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Pros

Great job. I’ve learned so much it is just hard with 5 day rto

Cons

The 5 day RTO mandate

3.0
Jun 21, 2026
Recommend
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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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