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Amazon Web Services reviews

3.6

62% would recommend to a friend

(13,998 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 13,998 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
Jan 22, 2025

Rough

Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

Fast learning curve, exposure to cutting-edge technology

Cons

No mentorship, unrealistic expectations, sink-or-swim mindset, dog-eats-dog environment.

1.0
Jan 21, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Decent Compensation - A good manager, team, and org. leads to a (generally) good day-to-day experience - Opportunities to learn and develop skills

Cons

Senior leadership is progressively taking away authority from organizations and mid-level managers in order to make sweeping rules such as returning to office 5 days without reference to any data in support of their position. Managers are unable to make decisions that are best for their own team and have diminishing authority to guide and direct their teams. Senior leadership expects the company to abide by leadership principles while actively refusing to do the same. The problems they identify are often problems that they themselves have created. Raises and compensation increases are low and infrequent (if stock price goes up, you will not get a raise). Promotion process is complex, bureaucratic, and often involves navigating office politics just to get a new compensation that is less than a new hire would make (existing employees are put on the bottom of the pay scale, new hires can negotiate better salaries). If you have a bad manager or a bad team, your life will be miserable. Employees are frequently overworked and under appreciated.

1.0
Dec 31, 2024

PIP Culture

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It's an amazing company where you will learn a lot. learning curve is steep and stays the same through out your Amazon tenure

Cons

You will be always be under pressure to work more and perform more as you will be under focus (PIP) and then terminated There is no work life balance and forget about long vacations Every six months, you will enter into hunger games arena, where you will stack ranked against others in the team, the one at the bottom will be eliminated. The elimination can be technical skills, issues with your manager or may be disagreering Forget about Family and work life balance, as policies can suddenly change.

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