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Fast Paced & Limited Career Advancement - Senior Manager Amazon Web Services Employee Review

2.0
Jun 6, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

You learn a lot, and work next to highly intelligent people. There is room to grow skill wise and you can also move around the company to other positions. The work pace and decision-making rate of speed forces you to adopt a new type of working speed as well. Room to fail but keep on succeeding as long as you learn from it. Flexibility on hours for certain positions as long as you get your job done at the end of the day.

Cons

Pay is not comparable to similar companies. Long hours and very little work life harmony. Leadership is pressured to meet expectations and it often outweigh employee happiness and career development. No time to work on personal goals - long hours, and if working from home there is work consistently throughout the day and night with 15+ hours a day often times. Promotion is difficult and hard to understand how to achieve, even if you're doing the same work as those in the levels above you.

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5.0
Jun 8, 2026
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Pros

Great team when you have a manager and full team that works well and collaborates well. Stock is great. And you know when youre doing well, the pay increase is roughly the same as everyone else.

Cons

Low perks compared to other FAANG companies and most teams have high turn over

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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