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Toxic Workplace - Anonymous employee Amazon Web Services Employee Review

1.0
Oct 4, 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good compensation with variable scheme Extremely profitable - growing business

Cons

Complete disregard for people, came back from parental leave only to find myself replaced by a junior member of the team and being handed over to a junior role. Reported the situation to HR who after 2 months of deliberating decided "there was no policy violation". The company is managed by robots and will get rid of you at the first chance. Praised are the people who work 16 hours per day and have no life outside work. AWS has nothing to do with Amazon, the leadership principles are not applied at all, except Customer Obsessions which equates to Sales really. It's full of poor managers coming from old school Sales machines ran by white men like HP, Oracle, Microsoft. Do not recommend to anyone.

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5.0
Jun 22, 2026
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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 1, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- Strong place to be early in your career as it provides valuable training and the brand recognition can create strong future opportunities. - Is great if you’re interested in what you’re doing/selling

Cons

- 5 days in office is not great for work/life balance - If your manager doesn’t like you, good luck! - 401k match is lower than most companies - Base salary compensation is weak compared to other big tech - Leveling/career progression is near impossible due to reorgs leading to a promotion “freeze” - Role can evolve over time in ways that may not align with original job expectations

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