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Favoritism and Biased Leaders - Sr Program Manager Amazon Web Services Employee Review

1.0
Apr 6, 2023
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Pros

Leaders and I use that word very loosely really are not held accountable for much so you can coast on by without doing much, and get promoted. Benefits are great, travel is a perk, remote work is great.

Cons

Culture is awful within AWS Learning. If you are a part of the “in” crowd then you are protected and behaviors and lack of actual deliverables are dismissed or justified. The people whom are supposed to be leaders are anything but real leaders. They take credit for others work, hide behind lies and a false narratives created to justify their behaviors, they bully anyone that isn’t a “yes” person, and no matter how many complaints are filed, they are swept under the rug cause they are in the protected club. The fact that this culture support people begging for accolades and encourages, almost rewarding those that show a desperate need to self-promote is demotivating for those that actually do their job well. One of the worst teams I have ever worked for.

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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
Jun 21, 2026
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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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