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Amazon Web Services reviews

3.6

62% would recommend to a friend

(14,018 total reviews)
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Matt Garman

52% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Amazon Web Services has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 14,018 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Amazon Web Services employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the IT (Information Technology) industry (3.9 stars).

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14K reviews
1.0
May 21, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

High compensation. AWS Cloud is dominant cloud.

Cons

Barebones office environment. Poor tooling (e.g. Office 2016, no calendaring). Stack ranking management system (e.g. Jack Welch - cut the bottom even if the bottom is good). Employees are replaceable and are just objects to generate revenue for Amazon.

1.0
May 19, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

nothing really, they're going to work you to the bone

Cons

everything, be prepared to write 5 pages of docs for 5 lines of code

1.0
May 14, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Very mediocre pay unless you are in a managerial role Nice facilities and located next to delicious eateries

Cons

Toxic management style where individuals have to be ranked in either low performing, meets standards, or excels. It does not matter if all team members excel and complete projects on time and meets customer satisfaction, single or multiple individuals (pending how much downsize is required) are ranked as low performers, placed into a PIP, and have to deal with more responsibilities until proven worthy of being removed off of the PIP. The likelihood of success is relatively low and causes a massive amount of stress on the individual due to archaic mandatory management styles. Recommend applying for Google or Microsoft, where management styles have moved away from such practices in favor of more balanced management systems.

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