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Run and never look back - Software Development Engineer Amazon Web Services Employee Review

1.0
31 Jul 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Probably compensation is good, but if you are laid off before getting the shares, you basically worked for free.

Cons

Old technology. Full of duplicated internal tools doing a bad copy of what open source software does 100X better. Ugly and uncomfortable offices with not even enough restrooms or places to eat, visible pipes (except if you are on HR floors, which are another world). Most overrated colleagues, once you get to a certain level, you become a demigod that can do or tell pure BS, but your opinion is always the one that would matter, no matter how wrong it is. Full of disloyal people that won't hesitate to betray you to cover their own incompetence. Huge lack of technical knowledge or the chance to work with smart people from whom you can learn new things. Completely full of the "project management" BS, meaning many hours spent each day on useless meetings, endless scrum/agile/BS processes, more focused on counting story points and all that BS that in really developing quality software.

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5.0
22 Jun 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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
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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