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Great Tech - Terrible Managers - Senior Solutions Architect Amazon Web Services Employee Review

2.0
7 Sept 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Lot's of great tech to learn and use. Access to tons of tools and training. Tons of smart people to work with.

Cons

Your experience totally depends on your manager. There is a lot of churn and you can have a good manager and suddenly end up with a terrible manager.... and it seems the good managers don't last very long. Turn over is pretty high - about 1/2 of new hires are gone within a year. Culture is harsh leads people to look out for themselves - no career benefit for being a team player. Working remote you have a lot of flexibility - but you will put in long hours. Way too many peripheral, no-value-add, collateral activities.

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5.0
27 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great job. I’ve learned so much it is just hard with 5 day rto

Cons

The 5 day RTO mandate

3.0
21 Jun 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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