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Amazon Web Services

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Highly structured, fast-paced, fairly ruthless but you will learn a lot - Software Development Manager Amazon Web Services Employee Review

3.0
Jun 30, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Stock price continues to go up, you'll learn how to operate a global service, you work with talented people. AWS generally genuinely care about the customer experience and improving things over time while also adding more and more capabilties. Culture is good in some ways, such as very clear about what it takes to perform at the next level. Huge company and you can transfer to another team as long as you're not being managed for performance.

Cons

Employee hostile in many small ways, including how the comp is confusingly structured, limited and going down. Rotating door of talent and teams. Experience is team dependent: if you have a rough ops load or a bad manager you'll have a hard time. Culture is bad in some ways such as throwing all the next level stuff out the window if you don't fit the curve of ratings. Just don't be the slowest deer and the wolves will leave you alone...for now! Internal tools are poor and you'll likely have to learn tons of non-transferrable skills.

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5.0
Jun 22, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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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
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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