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Fantastic company, petty people - AWS Cloud Architect Amazon Web Services Employee Review

1.0
Jan 27, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits and compensation Good company culture and knowledge enablement Challenging work environment

Cons

Anonymous complaints can tank your career No chance to respond when you're targeted Managers who aren't willing to stand up for new hires Long story short, was asked to assist with major initiatives outside my job role when I joined, manager at the time asked me to help out as shorthanded. Fast forward 3 months, helping with the project got me pegged as "unwilling to assist" with my core job role by some account managers I had to turn down due to lack of bandwidth, and my then manager had taken on new responsibilities, leaving me to fend for myself. Cherry on the cake was complaints raised to regional HR on the week when I was supposed to be confirmed in my role, leading to PIP being initiated against me, eventually dragging on and leading to my being asked to leave. At no point was any complaints raised to me or my manager before then, and no one would even tell me who had issues with my work, all the while I was receiving positive feedback from the customer and other team I worked with, and regularly working 10-12 hour days to prepare for tasks that technically weren't in my job scope. So yeah, great company, petty people if you're unlucky.

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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
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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