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Amazon Web Services

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Opportunity and growth but corporate and high pressure - Software Engineer I Amazon Web Services Employee Review

4.0
Aug 17, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Great possibilities for growth i.e. transfers and promotions. Learning opportunities in a wide variety of fields and topics. Very well paid. Benefits are on point. Nice tech too. Endless possibilities to join campaigns or communities for charity or fun. Teams are small and self-managed for the most part. You get to own your product more than any other corporate I have worked for.

Cons

Very high pressure job - expect to work overtime for your first 6 months or so. Very specific ecosystem - relearn a lot to do it the AWS way, i.e. Git or builds. Corporate structure - Though teams are small and self-managed, review processes etc. are quite impersonal checklist-style. Team members all across AWS rotate to be 'On Call', which means you will respond within 15min if your service is down at any time day or night.

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5.0
May 27, 2026
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Pros

Great job. I’ve learned so much it is just hard with 5 day rto

Cons

The 5 day RTO mandate

3.0
Jun 21, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Ambitious projects if you're in the right team. Typically great team-mates. Don't believe the memes, the ppl are not back stabbing jerks but are overall genuinely nice. Not constrained by budgets when building cool things. Tools while sometimes clunky are powerful.

Cons

Schizophrenic lack of focus, entire teams get split, merged and upended multiple times a quarter. Some product managers are disconnected from reality. It didn't use to be the case, the PM-Ts were previously top notch. You're pushed to vibe code everything. Established products with loyal customers are getting neglected. Newer VP level leaders don't seem to know what they are doing. Veteran OG VP level leaders are either leaving in droves or seem stressed or checked out.

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