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Good stable job, but has become uninspiring - Senior Solutions Architect Amazon Web Services Employee Review

4.0
Mar 28, 2025
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Pros

AWS is a good place to work, the business is still growing fairly rapidly and if you maintain good work visibility you could stay at L6 forever. It's a comfortable salary with personal growth potential if you put in the work. I had supportive managers that pushed me to learn and grow. The people in my immediate org were fun to hang out with and other orgs were accessible and open to help you if you asked for it. Overall it's good in the sales org and I recommend it as a place to work.

Cons

AWS used to be on the bleeding edge, releasing inspiring service updates and had this exciting vision of the future, but that vision has largely faded in the wake of GenAI mania. GenAI caught AWS off guard in 2022 and the organic cloud growth shifted to "hard selling" customers on GenAI services, which changed the sales org for the worse. Leaders became hyperfocused on individual metrics and salesforce numbers which put a lot of stress on everyone. In my opinion AWS hasn't released anything really ground breaking since 2021, just incremental improvements to already good cloud services. This culture change put a lot of people into "fear mode" as scrutiny increased, but the daily work was largely the same. But if you know how to navigate the expectations, and being "inspired" isn't your thing, then you can easily thrive at AWS.

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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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