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It paid the bills - QA Analyst Amazon Web Services Employee Review

3.0
Oct 10, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Lots of team building time (3-4 times a year), flexible benefits, decent swag handed out at regular intervals

Cons

No recognition for achieving expectations (or going beyond them), KPI goal posts moved every time they were met until team members were let go for not "keeping up", unrealistic expectations on being able to complete work without proper people resources or required materials, no respect for previous job qualifications when applying for internal jobs ("He already works for us, he has no negotiation power"), site growth and workflow scaling moves way faster than even senior leadership can handle which causes a lot of backwards work when having to re-establish or evaluate a new path forward to make up for lack of clear strategy by mangers, insanely long periods of time required in promotion "training programs" that do nothing but establish the need to work extra hours to learn future job positions and how to complete the work without oversight while still performing at the top level/percentage of other employees (again, despite having years of experience as people management).

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5.0
Jun 14, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Decent work life balance, great engineers

Cons

Wish the work was more interesting not their fault tho.

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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