Amazon Web Services reviews

The people churn is catching up with them. No long term execution plans, most leaders are new and The policy of not allowing people to apply for roles higher than their current level is ridiculous and contributes to the churn. When combined with the difficulty of getting promoted when your manager may leave or you get reorged every six months, working here should be looked at carefully.

- You are treated as just a number and layoffs are frequent and rampant and they do not look at performance AT ALL. A team member was laid off for performance at 200+ % of goal while a team member at under 70% was kept. - This is a place where they ONLY way to get ahead is nepotism. Good work is not rewarded. You have to play the game with leadership and only get opportunities if you network internally - more than you do with your clients or partners. This may not sound that bad from the outside, but it's a toxic culture unlike any I've ever seen. - Their "customer first" leadership principle is a sham - it's ALWAYS AWS first. - The promotion process is absolutely awful, so you better negotiate well before getting in. You have to write a 9-page document tying back your accomplishments with data to a different leadership principle and have senior people at different levels write on your behalf (aka you write it for them like recommendation letters when applying to colleges). Then it goes before a committee and is reviewed by people who may very well not know you at all. And you will only get a promotion when you have proven that you have been performing the work at the level above you for over a year. It's just another way that AWS saves money by exploiting employees.