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Amazon Web Services reviews

3.6

62% would recommend to a friend

(13,973 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 13,973 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
2.0
Aug 9, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1. Decent pay for first 4 years 2. Company not stingy about training 3. Plenty of travel opportunities for training/offsites/projects/etc

Cons

1. Company policies are not applied equally to all employees; rather, how loose or strict a given policy is applied to you depends entirely on your relationship with management (i.e.: Work from home [WFH] - on paper, every employee can WFH if "job role allows" but in practice your manager may find reasons to insist on office/site based work just for you while your colleague in the identical role is given more leeway because he/she knows how to schmooze better) 2. Heavy administrative & bureaucratic layer that impedes quick decisions and delays implementation 3. Most managers are strictly people managers and have weak technical skillsets in the discipline or specialization they manage; not all, but most. 4. Amazon has a compensation structure of roughly 1/2 cash, 1/2 stocks that run for the first 4 years of an employee's contract; but unless an employee is promoted or transfers to an out-of-country role, the likelihood of a stock top-up in his/her 5th year is little to none which results in a 50% drop in compensation; I've been told this is amazon's backhanded way of telling employees to leave

4.0
Aug 8, 2022

Great place to learn and develop

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Lots of opportunities to learn and grow your career.

Cons

If you do not like OLP, do not consider. Everything is about OLP.

4.0
Aug 8, 2022

Good experience

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great resources and team approach.

Cons

Work/life balance is a challenge

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