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Amazon Web Services reviews

3.6

62% would recommend to a friend

(13,937 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 13,937 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
Feb 14, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Genuinely if you look closely, you would find decent people. But you will count them on the fingers of your one hand

Cons

Unprofessional environment; Gaslightning as a "prefered" way to deal with a customer; Heavily mysogonist culture (when you see that AWS describes women as minority - believe it); Zero support, extremely vicious and competitve team, led by a narcistic manager. Genuinly a toxic culture which you want to avoid. Aside from that: very poor health insurance cover, almost laughable employee support, mental health is dealt with by listening to 1h workshop where a fellow employee tells you to breathe and see love. Poor benefits in general and definitely unbearable work culture

1.0
Jun 16, 2025

Churn and Burn

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Relatively high pay, smart people work there, sometimes projects can be interesting.

Cons

Culture of extreme fear, peer/team backstabbing, reprisals - extremely politically motivated workplace. My team had 50% turnover YoY because people left of their own volition. Absolutely no focus on quality, only speed, confusing the sensation of motion with little actual progress. There is literally no strategy or product roadmap, it's incredible to see *if your not the one who has to build it* no product requirements, user needs, goals, KPIs, OKRs, objectives, use cases, etc; the PM role does none of these thing (although good SDMs try to fill in the gaps). Managers will eat their own and sell you down the river to get a 2% bonus, while lying to your face about it. Everyone is just trying to collect as much money as they can before leaving themselves or retiring. Business/management schools need to write books on this place...

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